Louis Bernard Katz photograph album
Extent and Medium
oversize folder
1
Creator(s)
- Louis B. Katz
Biographical History
Louis Bernard Katz was a field surgeon with the United States Army during World War II. He was married to Florence Weisblat Katz, and they had two children, Judith and Nathan.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Judith Vigder.
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Judith Vigder in 2016. Judith is the daughter of Louis Katz.
Scope and Content
Loose photograph album of wartime photographs taken by Louis Bernard Katz, a field surgeon with the United States Army. The album includes photographs of the Ebensee subcamp of the Mauthausan concentration camp, Austria shortly after liberation; refugees in Waldenberg, Germany; and German prisoners-of-war in Simbach am Inn, Germany. Other cities documented include Mühlhausen, Germany; Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Germany, Lauf, Germany; Attnang, Austria; and Vöcklabruck, Austria. The album is annotated.
People
- Katz, Louis Bernard.
Corporate Bodies
- Ebensee (Concentration camp)
- United States. Army
Subjects
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Liberation--Germany.
- Simbach am Inn (Germany)
- Vöcklabruck (Austria : Politischer Bezirk)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz (Germany)
- Prisoners of war--Germany.
- Concentration camp inmates--Austria--Ebensee.
- Ebensee (Austria)
- Mühlhausen (Thuringia, Germany)
- Attnang-Puchheim (Austria)
- Waldenburg (Saxony, Germany)
Genre
- Document
- Photograph albums.