Anton Wohlfahrt and Ernst Reiter photograph
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Ernst Reiter donated the copyprint of the photograph to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 via Robert Buckley; however, he did not sign the deed of gift until 1996. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the copyprint by transfer in 1995.
Scope and Content
One gelatin silver copyprint of a photograph of Anton Wohlfahrt (d. 1974) and Ernst Reiter (b. 1915), both Jehovah's Witnesses, taken in June 1945, shortly after their time in Flossenbürg concentration camp and their liberation from a death march by American troops. Ernst Reiter, on the right, wears his prisoner number badge (1935) on the pocket of his jacket.
People
- Wohlfahrt, Anton.
- Reiter, Ernst, 1915-
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Death marches--Germany.
- Jehovah's Witnesses--Nazi persecution.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document
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