Edward Rutkowski collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Lisa Kressler
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection in 2016 by Lisa Kressler. Edward Rutkowski (1918-2009) was Lisa Kressler's husband's grandfather who brought these materials home after he returned from serving with the US military during WWII.
Scope and Content
Contains photographic prints showing destruction due to wafare but also immediate post-liberation images of concentration camps, likely the Ebensee subcamp of Mauthausen.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document