Ronald Leidelmeyer photograph collection

Identifier
irn59233
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2013.466.1
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn59233

Extent and Medium

box

oversize box

1

1

Creator(s)

  • United States Army Signal Corps

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ronald Leidelmeyer

Ronald Leidelmeyer donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013. His parents worked in The Hague after the war; his mother worked as a secretary for SHAEF.

Scope and Content

Consists of Signal Corps images of the wartime European and Pacific theaters, of the liberation of concentration camps, and of the Nuremberg trials. Includes images of the liberation of the Braunschweig, Bergen-Belsen, Braunlage, Buchenwald, Dachau, Dortmund, Ebensee, Flossenbürg, Landsberg, Neunburg, Nordhausen, Ohrdruf, Schwabmünchen, Schwarzenfeld, Struthof, Woebbelin, and Wuelfel concentration camps and atrocity sites.

System of Arrangement

The photographs are organized in three series: Series 1: Photographs related to the European and Pacific Theaters; Series 2: Photographs of the liberation of concentration camps; Series 3: Photographs of the Nuremberg Trials. The photographs of the concentration camps in series 2 are in alphabetical folders.

People

  • United States Army Signal Corps

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
  • Neunburg vorm Wald (Germany)
  • Schwabmünchen (Germany)
  • Schwarzenfeld (Germany)
  • Braunlage (Germany)
  • Wülfel (Hannover, Germany)

Genre

  • Document
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