Buchenwald liberation photographs

Identifier
irn78845
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2014.290.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn78845

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Sandra J. Behm

Sandra J. Behm donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The photographer was a half-brother or step-brother of her uncle, Frances Stow.

Scope and Content

Consists of three photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp by an American soldier. The photographs include an image of newly liberated prisoners sitting on the ground, and two images of a pile of corpses.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Buchenwald--Germany--Photographs.

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.