Raymond Lee Howley photographs

Identifier
irn47271
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.303.1
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn47271

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of John Howley

John Howley donated his father's photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012.

Scope and Content

Consists of eight photographs taken by Raymond Lee Howley, a member of the American Army during World War II, who toured the Dachau concentration camp soon after the liberation of the camp. Includes images of the crematorium, of piles of corpses, of a sign leading to the camp, and of a guard dog.

People

  • Howley, Raymond Lee.

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.