Sergeant Donald Blanchard photographs
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Donald and James Blanchard
Donald and James Blanchard donated their father's photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012.
Scope and Content
Consists of four photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The photographs, which depict piles of corpses and crematorium ovens, were taken by Donald Harry Blanchard, a Staff Sergeant in the 399rd Field Artillery Battalion of the 8th Armored Division. The photographs are described on the front of the images.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.