Overview
- Description
- 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.
- Date
-
creation:
1945
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Virginia Longest
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
-
1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- The Virgnia Longest photograph collection is arranged in a single series.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The Museum is in the process of determining the possible use restrictions that may apply to material(s) in this collection.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation. Nurse. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany. Soldiers--United States.
- Geographic Name
- Berchtesgaden (Germany). Germany.
- Corporate Name
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Virginia Longest donated the Virginia Longest photograph collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 14:28:58
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn548930
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Also in Virginia Longest collection
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.
Bayonet and sheath from the Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth)
Object
Acquired by Virginia Longest, 1945, Germany.
Photograph of a United States Army nurse
Document
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."
