Dachau liberation photographs

Identifier
irn46857
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.195.1
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn46857

Extent and Medium

folder

1

6 negatives,

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Linda Fitzsimmons

Linda Fitzsimmons donated these prints to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012. Her late husband, Mark Fitzsimmons, received them from Leo Vissas.

Scope and Content

Consists of copyprints and photographic negatives depicting images taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp, originally from the collection of Leo Vissas, an American soldier during World War II. The images depict prisoners assisting with the reburial of corpses; images of summary justice; and images of the Dachau death train, with "Off Limits" marked on the train cars.

People

  • Vissas, Leo.

Corporate Bodies

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.