Mauthausen photographs
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
The Mauthausen photographs were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996 by an Anonymous donor.
Scope and Content
Three original black-and-white photographs inscribed with "Mauthausen 8 May 1945" on the back of each photograph, as well as seven duplicates. The photographs depict piles of corpses found within the Mauthausen concentration camp, and a photograph of a man, possibly a survivor, sitting on the ground with a cart and building in the background. The photographer is unidentified.
System of Arrangement
The Mauthausen photographs are arranged in a single series.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Austria.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Holocaust victims.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document
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.