Jack Weiner photographs

Identifier
irn78853
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2014.507.1
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

oversize box

folder

1

1

5 slides,

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Dr. Jack Weiner was a member of the 115th Field Hospital of the United States miltary. He was stationed first in England in 1944, and in Germany in 1945, where he cared for the survivors of a concentration camp.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ann Greenfield

Ann Greenfield donated her uncle's collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014.

Scope and Content

Consists of original photographs and glass slides from the collection of Dr. Jack Weiner, a member of the United States Army who worked at the 115th Field Hospital in Kassel, Germany, in 1945. The collection includes photographs of Weiner and his staff in the summer of 1945, of structures damaged in the war, and original glass slides of the liberation of a concentration camp. The photographs are described on the verso.

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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.