Buchenwald memorial monument photograph
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joan Finnegan
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 by Joan Finnegan
Scope and Content
Photographic print; black and white image of memorial reading “K.L.B.” and “51.000” with two large wreaths, soldier standing on right; verso: handwritten in black ink: ““Buchenwald”/This is the monument they made/the Germans build, to honor the dead /murdered at this camp./51000 died when we got there and the ones/who were living were/so weak they were still/dying at the rate of/25 a day”; dated 1945-1946; Buchenwald, Germany.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Photograph.
- Document
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