Joseph Chervin collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
David Chervin donated his father's collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on July 17, 2006.
Scope and Content
Consists of six photographs (three images with enlarged duplicates) taken upon the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. The photographs depict piles of corpses. Also includes one handwritten letter, dated August 13, 1945, from PFC Joseph Chervin of Cleveland Heights, OH, to his parents, enclosing the enlargements of the photographs as well as the original envelope in which he sent the letter and the photographs.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.
- Letters.