Gusen liberation photographs

Identifier
irn81114
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2014.287.1
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Thomas, Melissa, James, and Hugh Cox

Thomas Cox donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014. His father was stationed in Germany after World War II, and likely collected these photographs at that time.

Scope and Content

Consists of 12 photographs taken after the liberation of the Gusen concentration camp. The photographs depict the burial of corpses in mass graves, the burning of barracks, a soldier standing in front of the sign for the Gusen cemetery, and the painted corpse of former commandant Franz Ziereis impaled on a barbed wire fence.

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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.