Irene Kedroff Kay photographs

Identifier
irn564020
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2017.607.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn564020

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Irene K. Kay

Biographical History

Irene Kedroff Kay (1917-1986) was born in 1917 in France to Valentine Kedroff and Xenia Ilovaisky. She worked at one of the Dachau trials.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Elisabeth and Mary Kvitashvili.

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Elisabeth and Mary Kvitashvili, daughters of Irene Kedroff.

Scope and Content

Consists of 17 photographs depicting one of the Dachau trials, a Nazi party event in Nuremberg, and Buchenwald at liberation. Irene Kedroff Kay acquired the photographs in Germany after the war while employed at one of the Dachau trials.

System of Arrangement

The Irene Kedroff Kay photographs are arranged as a single series.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
  • National socialism--Germany.
  • Trials (Crimes against humanity)--Germany--History--20th century.
  • Dachau (Germany)
  • Nuremberg (Germany)

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.