Leo Parenti collection
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.
Leo Parenti donated the photograph to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2001.
Scope and Content
The Leo Parenti collection consists of a black and white photograph of female corpses lying on the ground near the Helmbrechts concentration camp. Helmsbrechts is a sub-camp of Flossenbürg concentration camp. The photograph was taken by a member of the 26th Infantry (Yankee) Division, United States Army immediately after the discovery of the mass grave in 1944. Leo Parenti was present at the discovery of the mass grave and the unidentified photographer gave Parenti the photograph. Inscribed on the reverse of the photograph, in black ink: “Helmsberck [sic] Germany/sick/Polish Girl/Killed Jewish/German force/26 Inf. Div/1944 Germany/Girls beread [sic] in farm field pile/German said it was Potatoes. Women/told us about girls we/had Germans ucover [sic]."
System of Arrangement
The Leo Parenti collection is arranged in a single series.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Germany.
- Holocaust victims--Germany.
- Holocaust victims.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.