Dr. Frank Stinchfield collection

Identifier
irn36398
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2008.231.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn36398

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Lee Stinchfield

Lee Stinchfield donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Oct. 8, 2008.

Scope and Content

Consists of 39 photographs from the collection of Dr. Frank E. Stinchfield, a physician and Colonel in the United States Army Medical Corps. The photographs were taken a few days after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945, and depict surviving prisoners, camp architecture, and piles of corpses. Also includes several photographs of the Ohrdruf concentration camp after liberation.

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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.