Dr. Jesse Hofer collection
Document | Accession Number: 2009.121
- Date
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1945
(inclusive)
- Language
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English
- Genre/Form
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Personal Narratives.
- Extent
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8 copyprints.
1 memoir.
- Extent
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1 folder
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jessica Aiken and Beth Hutchings
Consists of eight color copyprints taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes images of camp buildings, survivors, corpses, and the bodies of SS officers killed after liberation. Also includes six chapters (approx. 100 pages) of the memoir of Dr. Jesse Hofer, PhD, MD, entitled "From Behind Those Fences." In the memoir, Dr. Hofer describes what he witnessed upon the liberation of Buchenwald and his reflections on what he saw there.
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