Roger S. Heidenheim collection
Extent and Medium
folders
3
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Taylor Heidenheim
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008 by Mr. Taylor Heidenheim
Scope and Content
Consists of an anonymous account, dated 18 April 1945, Weimar, Germany offering first hand observations of atrocities at Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Also includes 30 edited negatives and 30 prints of the 166th Signal Corps unit and their documentation for disbursement of German concentration camps directly after liberation. The photos document the conditions of survivors, mass graves, and corpses of victims persecuted by the Nazis in German concentration camps; dated April 1945.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Mr. Taylor Heidenheim
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Negatives.
- Personal narratives.
- Photographs.
- Document
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