Dachau concentration camp crematoria photographs and negatives
Extent and Medium
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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.
Rob Ross Hendrickson donated the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in June 1990.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of six black and white photographs of scenes of the crematoria at Dachau concentration camp shortly after liberation in 1945. According to the donor, the photoprints were taken from a captured German officer after liberation. Each photoprint has a matching photonegative. There is caption information on reverse of each photoprint provided by the donor, Rob Hendrickson.
System of Arrangement
The Dachau concentration camp crematoria photographs and negatives are arranged in a single series.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Dachau.
- Crematoriums--Germany.
- Crematoriums--Germany--Dachau.
- Germany.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Negatives.
- Document