Sgt. Edward Cooney photographs
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Nancy Chase
Nancy Chase donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She received them from the widow of Sgt. Cooney.
Scope and Content
Consists of five photographs taken after the liberation of the Wöbbelin concentration camp and depict the exterior of barracks and piles of corpses of prisoners. The photographs were taken on May 3, 1945, by Sgt. Edward Cooney, a member of the United States Army, 8th Infantry Division, 28th Infantry Regiment, Company M, Heavy Weapons Unit.
People
- Cooney, Edward.
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army. Infantry Division, 8th
- Wöbbelin (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Wöbbelin.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document