Reinald Leidelmeyer collection

Identifier
irn84577
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Acquisition

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Ronald Leidelmeyer

Scope and Content

Consists of Signal Corps images of the wartime European and Pacific theaters, of the liberation of concentration camps, and of the Nuremberg trials. Includes images of the liberation of the Braunschweig, Bergen-Belsen, Braunlage, Buchenwald, Dachau, Dortmund, Ebensee, Flossenbürg, Landsberg, Neunburg, Nordhausen, Ohrdruf, Schwabmünchen, Schwarzenfeld, Struthof, Woebbelin, and Wuelfel concentration camps and atrocity sites. Also includes a oral history interview with Dr. Reinald Leidelmeyer, who was a member of the Dutch Resistance in the Hague, recorded ca. 1994. He describes his arrest, being sent to a slave labor camp, and finally being released after feigning illness.

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.