Harry Weiss Collection

Identifier
irn548920
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1992.112
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn548920

Extent and Medium

folders

2

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Harry Weiss

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Harry Weiss donated the Harry Weiss collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992.

Scope and Content

The Harry Weiss collection consists of photographs created by 166th US Army Signal Corps photographers from April 1945-May 1945. The photographs relate to the liberation of various concentration camps and the burial victims and also include the images of the corpses of victims at the Ohrdruf concentration camp; victims and survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp; various buildings including crematorium and barracks at Buchenwald concentration camp; German civilians digging graves for concentration camp victims; corpses of slave labor victims near Wetterfield, Germany; the bodies of female Jewish victims at the Hergenhein concentration camp; the liberation of and arrival of American troops at the Dachau concentration camp; the buildings and victims of Landsberg a sub-camp of Dachau concentration camp. The collection also includes five samples of Theresienstadt ghetto scrip.

System of Arrangement

The Harry Weiss collection is arranged in a single series.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Weimar (Germany)
  • Concentration camp inmates.
  • Landsberg am Lech (Germany)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
  • Soldiers--United States.
  • Nuremberg (Germany)
  • Holocaust victims.
  • United States. Army.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.

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.

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