Cloyd Lewis Hershberger photograph collection

Identifier

irn39210

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2011.460.1

Dates

1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945

Level of Description

Item

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn39210

Extent and Medium

folder

119 photographs,

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Madaline Hershberger

Madaline Hershberger donated her husband's photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Jan. 28, 2010.

Scope and Content

Consists of photographs taken or given to Cloyd Lewis Hershberger, a member of the 45th Tank Battalion of the 13th Armored Division of the Third Army. The images depict the liberation of Buchenwald, the aftermath of summary justice, the destruction of various buildings and the buildings at Berchtesgaden.

Corporate Bodies

Buchenwald (Concentration camp)

Subjects

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

Genre

Photographs.
Document

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.