Irving Fink photograph collection
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Irving Fink
Biographical History
Irving Fink (c.1920-1997) served in the United States Army during World War II. He married Dorothy Schlossberg and had two sons, Allan and Sheldon.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Allan Schlossberg
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Allan Schlossberg
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
The Irving Fink photograph collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019 by Allan Schlossberg, nephew of Irving Fink. The collections numbered 2019.288.1 and 2019.472.1 have been incorporated into this collection.
Scope and Content
The collection includes three photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and a photograph of US soldiers in Domazlice, Czechoslovakia. Irving Fink, who served in the United States Army, brought the photographs home with him after the war.
People
- Fink, Irving.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Domažlice (Czechoslovakia)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.