Edward Kauffman collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Cynthia Kauffman
Cynthia Kauffman donated her late husband's photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012.
Scope and Content
Consists of 20 photographs taken and collected by Edward Kauffmann, a member of the 166th Infantry, part of the 42nd (Rainbow) Division of the United States Army. Includes aerial photographs of Paris, France taken in 1944, photographs of the destruction of buildings in France, and images taken of survivors and of corpses after the liberation of Buchenwald.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Concentration camps--Germany-Buchenwald.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document