Leonard Burrows photographs

Identifier
irn74201
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2014.78.1
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn74201

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Mimi Calver

Mimi and Rodney Calver donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013. Mr. Calver's mother, Grace, operated a pub in Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, with Mr. Burrows' widow, Nina. As the Burrows had no children, the photographs were given to the Calver family.

Scope and Content

Consists of six photographs taken after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The photographs, which depict corpses and a crematorium oven, likely belonged to Flight Lt. Leonard (Bunny) Burrows, a member of the British military who took part in the liberation.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

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

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.