Buchenwald liberation photograph

Identifier
irn518395
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2007.320
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn518395

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Pamela Hunt McDonald and the Hunt family donated this photograph to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 9, 2006.

Scope and Content

Consists of one photograph, almost certainly of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation, of two piles of corpses.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.

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.