Abe Bortz photographs

Identifier
irn77986
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2014.93.1
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn77986

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ellen Bortz

Ellen Bortz donated her father-in-law's photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014.

Scope and Content

Consists of three photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, depicting a pile of corpses under memorial wreathes, and soldiers examining the camp gallows. Also includes a portrait of the photographer, Abe Bortz, a member of the 503 Quartermaster Car Company, First Army.

People

  • Bortz, Abe.

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.