Ginny Helgeson collection

Identifier
irn39432
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2010.101
  • RG-10.506
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn39432

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Claude E. McGraw

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ginny Helgeson

Ginny Helgeson donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. They are from her father's collection.

Scope and Content

Consists of five enlarged Signal Corps photographs taken by Claude Edward McGraw, a member of the United States Signal Corps. The photographs depict survivors demonstrating the use of the crematorium or photographers after the liberation of Dachau; Red Cross tents at Mauthausen; and prisoner portraits, including one of a Soviet prisoner with his name and prisoner number tattooed on his chest. Also includes one smaller photograph with caption describing the image of the reburial of bodies taken from a mass grave in Wetterfield, Germany.

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.