Virginia Longest collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn515578
• English
• 1945
• folder 1
• Updated 12 months ago

The photograph depicts Virginia Longest, a nurse in General Patton's 3rd Army, standing in front of a sign reading, "58th Fld. Hospital; 2nd Platoon; A.E.H.U." Caption on back reads, "The 58th Field Hospital was attached to General Patton's 3rd Army - This scene is at the Airfield-Munich-Germany - where our hospital was set up in tents. We evacuated our patients (G.I.'s) on C-47 Airplanes - Virginia B. Longest standing at the 58th sign."

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn5258
• English
• 1945
• a: Height: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) | Width: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) b: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Depth: 1.120 inches (2.845 cm)
• Updated 12 months ago

Acquired by Virginia Longest, 1945, Germany.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn5260
• English
• 1945
• overall: Height: 14.490 inches (36.805 cm) | Width: 3.110 inches (7.899 cm) | Depth: 0.870 inches (2.21 cm)
• Updated 12 months ago

Acquired by Virginia Longest, 1945, Germany.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn548930
• English
• 1945
• folder 1
• Updated 12 months ago

Consists of 38 photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp soon after liberation, ruins of Hitler's Berchtesgaden home, the Hotel Florida in Bad Wiessee, and other postwar images. The photos were taken with a Kodak Instamatic camera by Virginia Longest, a nurse in General Patton's army, and developed in an Xray laboratory.