Edward Kauffman collection

Identifier
irn45698
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.176.1
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

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.

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Genre

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