Gusen liberation photographs
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Thomas, Melissa, James, and Hugh Cox
Thomas Cox donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014. His father was stationed in Germany after World War II, and likely collected these photographs at that time.
Scope and Content
Consists of 12 photographs taken after the liberation of the Gusen concentration camp. The photographs depict the burial of corpses in mass graves, the burning of barracks, a soldier standing in front of the sign for the Gusen cemetery, and the painted corpse of former commandant Franz Ziereis impaled on a barbed wire fence.
People
- Ziereis, Franz.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Austria--Gusen.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document
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