Yves Masson collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Yves Masson
Donated by Yves Masson to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000.
Scope and Content
Group of black and white photographs: 26 mounted on two album pages and 2 loose photographs. Three photo reproductions from newspapers. Photographic prints: two pages, possibly removed from photograph album, bearing 26 captioned images, post-liberation in concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald, taken by Pierre Jean Louis Masson (donor's father) who was part of Red Cross (in France) attached to American 3rd Army. Five loose 5 x 7 black and white images, two depicting stacked corpses in Buchenwald and three are photographic reproductions of vintage newspaper articles, in French, also depicting atrocities uncovered in camps Bergen-Belsen and Vaihingen, sub-camp of Natzweiler, dated circa Spring 1945, Germany, inscriptions on photograph album pages and newspaper articles in French.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document