RCAF 39th Reconnaissance wing photographs

Identifier
irn94995
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2015.187.1
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn94995

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Chris Kassoulides

Chris Kassoulides donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015.

Scope and Content

Consists of photographs taken after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; of the destruction of ships near Lübeck, including corpses washed ashore; of destruction in Hamburg; and of members of the Royal Canadian Airforce's 39th Reconnaissance wing. The liberation photographs include images of the burial of corpses, of SS women behind barbed wire, and of a female survivor in the Belsen hospital. Also includes a card listing sleeping quarters assignment on a troop ship.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Lübeck (Germany)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.

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.