Photographic negative of corpses at Buchenwald

Identifier
irn515577
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1992.2
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn515577

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of William Alexander Scott III

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

William Alexander Scott III donated the photographic negative of corpses at Buchenwald to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992 Created by William Alexander Scott, III, April 1945, Buchenwald concentration camp.

Scope and Content

The photographic negative depicts American soldiers looking at a mound of corpses in front of an incinerator building at Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Dead persons--Germany--1940-1950.
  • Soldiers--American--Germany--1940-1950.
  • Germany.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.

Genre

  • Film negatives.
  • Document
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