Margaret Bourke White photograph

Identifier

irn35518

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2008.329.1

Level of Description

Item

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn35518

Creator(s)

Margaret Bourke-White

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. William L. Scheck

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008 by Dr. and Mrs. William and Sue Ann Scheck.

Scope and Content

1 Gelatin Silver Print: photograph by Margaret Bourke White. Photograph depicts charred remains inside Buchenwald crematorium oven, on display for German civilians forced to view Nazi atrocities found by American forces after they liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp.

System of Arrangement

The collection is arranged as a single series.

Corporate Bodies

Buchenwald (Concentration camp)

Genre

Photographs.
Document

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.