Nordhausen liberation photographs

Identifier

irn39231

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2010.47
RG-04.082

Dates

1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945

Level of Description

Item

Languages

English

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn39231

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Mitsuo Enomoto

Mitsuo Enomoto donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Feb. 1, 2010. He found them at an estate sale in Kansas City, MO.

Scope and Content

Consists of five photographs taken after the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp. The photographs depict American soldiers and corpses being prepared for burial. United States censorship marks are on the verso of the images.

Subjects

Nordhausen (Concentration camp)
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.

Genre

Document
Photographs.

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.