Signal Corps photographs

Identifier
irn38057
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2009.327
  • RG-09.081
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn38057

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Randy Cole

Randy Cole donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on 5 May 2009.

Scope and Content

Consists of 23 enlarged copyprints of images taken by the United States Army Signal Corps. Includes images of the Buchenwald concentration camp, the Nuremberg trials, President Harry Truman in Europe, the ruins of the city of Nuremberg, and the discovery and reburial of corpses found in the snow.

People

  • Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Buchenwald.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
  • Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.

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.

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