Harry L. Smith photograph collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by Professor Howard Wisch.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of 23 photographs taken at Buchenwald at the time of liberation that show camp structures, crematoria, corpses, and liberated prisoners. The photographs were taken by Harry L. Smith in April 1945, when he was a medic with the 628th Medical Clearing Company of the U.S. First Army.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is in the order in which received
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army. Army, 1st
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
- Prisoners--Germany--1940-1950.
- Crematoriums--Germany--1940-1950.
- Dead persons--Germany--1940-1950.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.