Virginia Longest collection

Identifier: irn91084
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn91084

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991 by Virginia Longest. An accretion was received in 1992.

Scope and Content

Consists of 38 photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp soon after liberation, ruins of Hitler's Berchtesgaden home, the Hotel Florida in Bad Wiessee, and other postwar images. The photos were taken with a Kodak Instamatic camera by Virginia Longest (donor), a nurse in General Patton's army, and developed in an Xray laboratory. The collection also includes a bayonet and sheath from the Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth), as well as a dagger, that the donor acquired in 1945 in Germany. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

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1. English (4)
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1. United States (4)
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1. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (4)

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Photograph of a United States Army nurse
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn515578
- English
- 1945
- folder 1
- Updated 9 months ago
The photograph depicts Virginia Longest, a nurse in General Patton's 3rd Army, standing in front of a sign reading, "58th Fld. Hospital; 2nd Platoon; A.E.H.U." Caption on back reads, "The 58th Field Hospital was attached to General Patton's 3rd Army - This scene is at the Airfield-Munich-Germany - where our hospital was set up in tents. We evacuated our patients (G.I.'s) on C-47 Airplanes - Virginia B. Longest standing at the 58th sign."
Bayonet and sheath from the Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn5258
- English
- 1945
- a: Height: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) | Width: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) b: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Depth: 1.120 inches (2.845 cm)
- Updated 9 months ago
Acquired by Virginia Longest, 1945, Germany.
Dagger
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn5260
- English
- 1945
- overall: Height: 14.490 inches (36.805 cm) | Width: 3.110 inches (7.899 cm) | Depth: 0.870 inches (2.21 cm)
- Updated 9 months ago
Acquired by Virginia Longest, 1945, Germany.
Virginia Longest photographs
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn548930
- English
- 1945
- folder 1
- Updated 9 months ago
Consists of 38 photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp soon after liberation, ruins of Hitler's Berchtesgaden home, the Hotel Florida in Bad Wiessee, and other postwar images. The photos were taken with a Kodak Instamatic camera by Virginia Longest, a nurse in General Patton's army, and developed in an Xray laboratory.

Virginia Longest collection

Child Items

Photograph of a United States Army nurse

Bayonet and sheath from the Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth)

Dagger

Virginia Longest photographs