Walter Rhodes 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 Walter E. Rhodes Jr.
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011 by Walter E. Rhodes, Jr.
Scope and Content
Contains nine photographs taken at liberation of the Bergen Belsen concentration camp in April 1945 by British Army photographers. Three of the photographs show the dire conditions for the liberated women prisoners; one photograph depicts British POWs suffering from malnutrition; five photographs show the corpses of the murdered inmates and burial in mass graves by the SS personnel on orders from the British Army.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document
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