Nordhausen liberation photographs
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Myrtle Waterman donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Oct. 17, 1997. She received them from a friend, Sgt. Jim Scheets.
Scope and Content
Consists of eight photographs taken by Sgt. Jim Scheets of the United States Army at the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp. Sgt. Scheets wrote captions on the backs of the photographs, which depict the burial of corpses.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document