Mauthausen liberation photograph

Identifier
irn73087
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2013.390.1
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn73087

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Janis Murray and Barbara Mohler

Janis Murray and Barbara Mohler donated this photograph to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013.

Scope and Content

Consists of one photograph taken after the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp. The photograph depicts piles of corpses in the Soviet section of the camp, with a newly liberated prisoner pointing at the bodies.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Austria--Mauthausen.

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.