Ohrdruf liberation photographs
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Shirley Young Bordenkircher donated her uncle's photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Feb. 11, 1998.
Scope and Content
Consists of five photographs of the Ohrdruf concentration camp after liberation in 1945; includes photographs of barracks, of the entrance to the camp, and of the digging of burial ditches. The photographs were taken by Roy (Lee) Mackey, a soldier in the United States Army.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.