Jacob Yessenow photograph collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joyce and Michael Hallet
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Joyce Hallet, daughter of Jacob Yessenow.
Scope and Content
Photographs: post-liberation images of victims in the former Mauthausen concentration camp. Images include piles of bodies in wagons, laid and waiting to be buried and placed in mass graves by local Austrian bystanders. Also included is a view of the camp and interior barracks where surviving victims still remained; dated circa May 1945. Photographs belonged to Jacob Yessenow (Joyce Hallet's father) a member of the US Army's 11th Armored Division.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document