Morris Katz collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center
Chuck Ehrenberg donated his uncle's collection to the Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center in 2006. The collection was transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum upon the closure of the Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center in Springfield, MA, in September 2010.
Scope and Content
Consists of documents, photographs, photocopies, and photographic negatives from the collection of Morris Katz, who was a medic in the United States Army during World War II. Includes photographs of France and Germany during and after the war, as well as photographs taken at the liberation of Buchenwald along with a notepad of handwritten captions. Includes documents from his military career and photographs of his family, which he carried with him in Europe.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.