Ohrdruf liberation photographs
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joel Adelman
Joel Adelman donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012. He received the photographs from a high school classmate whose father was a liberator.
Scope and Content
Consists of 20 photographs taken after the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp in April 1945 by an unknown member of the American Army. Includes images of corpses immediately after liberation, of preparing, transporting, and burying these corpses, and of a pyre on which corpses were burned.
Subjects
- Dead persons--Germany--Ohrdruf--1940-1950.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
- Ohrdruf (Concentration camp)
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.