Dachau liberation collection
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Anonymous
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of an Anonymous Donor
An anonymous donor sent this photographs and letter to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015.
Scope and Content
Consists of six photographs of corpses taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. The photographs, one of which depicts a victim with a detached prosthetic leg, are described on the verso. Also includes a letter dated 29 June 1945 from an American soldier to his family enclosing the Dachau photographs. The American soldier, unnamed, is depicted in the seventh photograph.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Letter.
- Document
- Photographs.
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