Ohrdruf liberation photo
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Michael-Lee O'Brien Brockhouse.
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Michael-Lee O'Brien Brockhouse in 2016.
Scope and Content
Photographic print: black and white image of American soldier standing next to open trailer loaded with corpses; caption handwritten on verso: “Murdered slaves about to get a decent burial / Ohrdruf, Germany”; dated April-May 1945; in English
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Document
- Photograph.