National Archives and Records Administration collection

Identifier
irn84487
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Acquisition

The collection was transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991 by the National Archives and Records Administration.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of unused prisoner identification badges from Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp in Germany which were found by Lieutenant Colonel Charles F. Ottoman, United States Army, after the liberation of the camp by American forces, who captured all camp records intact, and which were presented in evidence at the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings, War Crimes Trials, in Dachau, Germany, after the war.

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.