Anthony George Bello photographs

Identifier
irn712894
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2019.497.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn712894

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Salvatore Bello

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019 by Salvatore Bello, son of Anthony George Bello.

Scope and Content

Contains six post-liberation concentration camp photographs obtained by Anthony George Bello (donor's father), a member of Patton’s Third Army, Eighth Armored Division. Anthony obtained the photographs from an unknown source but also witnessed the atrocities first-hand. Images are large format, news press images of German women burying the dead in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany; images of the dead piled up in Buchenwald concentration camp; the crematoria at an unidentified camp; and Eisenhower viewing the dead in Ohrdruf concentration camp.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Burial.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.

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.