Selected records from the American Field Service Archives and Museum relating to Bergen-Belsen

Identifier

irn503746

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

1993.A.0057
RG-04.038.01

Dates

1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1985

Level of Description

Item

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503746

Extent and Medium

oversize folder

Archival History

American Field Service Archives and Museum

Acquisition

Materials were obtained from the American Field Service Archives and Museum by Genya Markon, Director United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives, ca. 1991. She turned them over to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Mar. 1993.

Scope and Content

Relates to the work of the American Field Service (C and D Platoons) at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after liberation. Contains information about starvation of prisoners; sanitation in the camp; disease; forms of execution used in the camp; mass burials of Bergen-Belsen victims; medical care for survivors; and activities of specific AFS personnel during the post-liberation clean up of the camp.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is thematic

Corporate Bodies

Great Britain. Army
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)

Subjects

Holocaust survivors.
Concentration camps--Officials and employees, Female.
Jews--Czechoslovakia.
Diaries.
Jewish children.
Burial.
Sanitation.
International relief.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Women.
Starvation.
Diseases.
Typhus fever.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Health aspects.
Atrocities.

Genre

Photographs.
Document

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