Herman Williams photograph collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Shirley Haigh
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by Shirley Haigh
Scope and Content
Contains 22 post-war/liberation photographs taken in Germany and possibly Austria and brought back to the United States by American serviceman Herman Williams. Includes four printed postcards produced by the 13th Armored Division, U.S. Army, showing post-combat scenes in Belgium and Germany, circa 1944-1945, and post-liberation scenes from unidentified concentration camp, showing corpses and crematoria.
System of Arrangement
The collection is arranged as a single series.
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army. Armored Division, 13th
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Postcards.
- Photographs.
- Document