American soldiers and civilians looking at corpses at Buchenwald

Identifier
irn515651
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1992.80
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn515651

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Mollie Levens

Obtained by Lt. Col. Leo M. Levens (donor's husband), 1945, Germany. The photograph was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Mollie Levens in 1992

Scope and Content

The photograph depicts a pile of emaciated dead bodies piled onto a truck with American soldiers and civilians standing around the truck. The photograph was taken at the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945. Caption on the verso: "Buchenwald; Jews are in cart / Sent by: Mrs. Leo M. Levens; Given by: Lt.C. Leo M. Levens 0344525 / Please print copies + distribute where it would do the most good. Thank you. Mollie Levens."

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

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

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.