Stanley E. Smith photograph collection

Identifier
irn515282
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1990.180
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn515282

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Samuel A. Smith donated the photograph collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990. Samuel A. Smith is the son of Stanley E. Smith, M.D.

Scope and Content

The Samuel A. Smith photograph collection consists of ten photographs taken by Stanley E. Smith, M.D., a medical officer in the United States Army, following the liberation of the Ebensee concentration camp, June 1945. The photographs show Ebensee concentration camp inmates before and after the delousing process.

System of Arrangement

The Samuel A. Smith photograph collection is arranged in a single series.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Soldiers--American--Austria--Ebensee--1940-1950.
  • Soldiers--United States.
  • Sick persons--Austria--Ebensee--1940-1950.
  • Austria.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Prisoners--Austria--Ebensee--1940-1950.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
  • Concentration camp inmates.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Austria--Ebensee.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.