Sigmund Faye photographs
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.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Document
- Newspaper articles.
- Photographs.