Howard Cwick papers
Extent and Medium
folders
6
Creator(s)
- Howard Cwick
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
This collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Howard Cwick in 1989,1990,1996, and 2006.
Scope and Content
Consists of 35 negatives, eleven photoprints, and twenty copyprints of the Buchenwald concentration camp at liberation. Also contains a memoir entitled "It Happened in Germany," 21 pages, by Howard Cwick, a sergeant in the Third United States Army. Mr. Cwick participated in the liberation of Buchenwald and describes his experiences as a Jewish soldier on liberation day.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Mass burials--Germany--1940-1950.
- Dead persons--Germany--1940-1950.
- Soldiers--American--Germany--1940-1950.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
Genre
- Film negatives.
- Photographs.
- Document
- Personal Narratives.