Henry "Sonny" Schloss photographs

Identifier
irn69547
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2013.198.1
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn69547

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Emily Singer

Paul and Emily Singer donated her father's photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013.

Scope and Content

Consists of nine photographs from the collection of Henry "Sonny" Schloss, a member of the United States Army Signal Corps, who participated in the liberation of Dachau. Includes photographs of victims of the death train, of guards killed by American troops by summary justice, and of Schloss himself. Includes a photograph (likely not taken at Dachau) of Schloss in front of a train car on which is written the hometowns of members of the "Fightin 659th."

People

  • Schloss, Henry.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Dachau.

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.