Buchenwald liberation photographs

Identifier

irn518511

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2006.360

Dates

1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945

Level of Description

Item

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn518511

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Joyce Stevens donated her father's photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Sept. 25, 2006.

Scope and Content

Consists of five photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The photographs depict a pile of corpses and a pile of bones behind a gallows. The photographs are from the collection of Emmet Stevens, who was a member of the United States Army.

Corporate Bodies

Buchenwald (Concentration camp)

Subjects

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

Genre

Photographs.
Document

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.