Charles Peter Heimann collection

Identifier

irn35978

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2007.503.1

Dates

1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945

Level of Description

Item

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn35978

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rosemary Smith

Rosemary Smith donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Oct. 25, 2007.

Scope and Content

Consists of 14 photographs taken upon the liberation of an unknown concentration camp in the spring of 1945. The photographs, which depict corpses lined in rows, were either taken or acquired by Charles Peter Heimann, a member of the United States Army. Also includes the envelope in which they were held.

Subjects

World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.

Genre

Document
Photographs.

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.