Prentice G. Morgan collection

Identifier
irn38238
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2010.319
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn38238

Extent and Medium

oversize folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Tom Morgan

Tom Morgan donated these pages from his father's photograph album to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Oct. 27, 2009.

Scope and Content

Consists of two pages from a photograph album owned by Prentice G. Morgan, a member of Patton's Third Army. Morgan participated in the liberation of Buchenwald, and the photograph album pages include eleven photographs of the liberation and his commentary about what he witnessed in the camp. The photographs depict American military personnel in the camp, camp buildings, summary justice, military personnel viewing anatomical artifacts belonging to Ilse Koch, and the burial of victims.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

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

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.