Concentration camp liberation photographs

Identifier
irn2507
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1990.116.1
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • French
Source
EHRI Partner

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Liliane Yates

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by Liliane Yates.

Scope and Content

Contains photographs of various concentration camps, taken shortly after liberations. Scenes show corpses, surviving prisoners and living conditions in the camps. The camps and locations represented include Bergen-Belsen, Dortmund, Gardelegen, Struthof, Penig, and Vaihingen. Some photographs are captioned in French.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Penig (Germany)
  • Dortmund (Germany)
  • Vaihingen an der Enz (Germany)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
  • Gardelegen massacre, 1945.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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