Leo Sadinsky photograph collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jef Adin in memory of his father, Leon Sadinsky
Jef Adin donated his father's photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Leo Sadinsky, a Holocaust survivor from Kaunas [Kovno], Lithuania, survived Dachau and found these photographs on the body of a deceased German soldier in the final weeks of April 1945.
Scope and Content
Consists of three photographs taken in the spring of 1945 inside the Dachau concentration camp. The photographs, which Holocaust survivor Leo Sadinsky remembered taking off the body of a German soldier, depict a pile of corpses, a body next to a wall, and a group of prisoners in uniforms behind a barbed wire fence. The photograph of the pile of bodies is dated April 15, 1945 on the verso.
People
- Sadinsky, Leo.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document