Eugene Mielcarek photographs

Identifier
irn74238
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2014.92.1
  • 2021.154
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn74238

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Eugene Mielcarek's wife, Jeanne, and his children, Timothy and Linnea

Linnea Mielcarek donated her father's photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013.

Scope and Content

Consists of one folder of photographs from the collection of Eugene Mielcarek, a Polish-American member of the United States Army during World War II. The photographs, the majority of which Mielcarek did not take himself, depict the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation, destruction in Germany, the collection of displaced persons in Eisenach, Germany, and a hanging of three Polish citizens, dated July 1945. Includes Mielcarek's typed and handwritten commentary on the versos.

People

  • Mielcarek, Eugene.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Eisenach (Germany)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.

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.