Sigmund Faye photographs

Identifier
irn515040
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.349
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Norman Faye.

Norman Faye donated these photographs, mainly taken by his father, to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on Nov. 22, 1996.

Scope and Content

Consists of photographs taken by Captain Sigmund Faye in Jun. and Jul. 1945, in the liberated Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps. Photographs show Capt. Faye posing with survivors of the camp, and also include two official photographs taken by the "LAPI" of corpses. Also includes a photocopy of a "Beachhead News" newspaper article mentioning Capt. Faye's heroism on a rescue mission during the war. Additional "LAPI" photograph found in Photo Archives binders.

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