Jack Weiner photographs
Extent and Medium
oversize box
folder
1
1
5 slides,
Creator(s)
- Jack Weiner
Biographical History
Dr. Jack Weiner was a member of the 115th Field Hospital of the United States miltary. He was stationed first in England in 1944, and in Germany in 1945, where he cared for the survivors of a concentration camp.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ann Greenfield
Ann Greenfield donated her uncle's collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014.
Scope and Content
Consists of original photographs and glass slides from the collection of Dr. Jack Weiner, a member of the United States Army who worked at the 115th Field Hospital in Kassel, Germany, in 1945. The collection includes photographs of Weiner and his staff in the summer of 1945, of structures damaged in the war, and original glass slides of the liberation of a concentration camp. The photographs are described on the verso.
People
- Weiner, Jack.
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army. Field Hospitals
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Europe.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.
- Slides.