Post-liberation photographs of Dachau concentration camp

Identifier
irn506435
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1988.A.0149
  • RG-04.070
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn506435

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • David E. Lyne

Biographical History

David E. Lyne served in Patton's 1st Army during World War II and was a witness to events at Dachau concentration camp shortly after liberation.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Jim Lyne, the son of David E. Lyne, donated the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jan. 1988. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the collection in Sept. 1995.

Scope and Content

Contains 17 black-and-white photographs of Dachau concentration camp taken shortly after liberation in April and May 1945. Among the images are scenes of dead victims, dead SS troops from the camp, dead victims in railroad cars near the camp, surviving inmates in the camp, and Dachau camp buildings and crematoria.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is numerical by inventory number

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Dachau.
  • Concentration camp inmates--Germany--Dachau.
  • Crematoriums--Germany--Dachau--1940-1950.
  • Dead persons--Germany--Dachau--1940-1950.

Genre

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.