Ohrdruf liberation photographs

Identifier
irn514780
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.358
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

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.

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Genre

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