RCAF 39th Reconnaissance wing photographs
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Chris Kassoulides
Chris Kassoulides donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015.
Scope and Content
Consists of photographs taken after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; of the destruction of ships near Lübeck, including corpses washed ashore; of destruction in Hamburg; and of members of the Royal Canadian Airforce's 39th Reconnaissance wing. The liberation photographs include images of the burial of corpses, of SS women behind barbed wire, and of a female survivor in the Belsen hospital. Also includes a card listing sleeping quarters assignment on a troop ship.
Corporate Bodies
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Lübeck (Germany)
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document