Ginny Helgeson collection

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2010.101 | RG Number: RG-10.506

Overview

Description: Consists of five enlarged Signal Corps photographs taken by Claude Edward McGraw, a member of the United States Signal Corps. The photographs depict survivors demonstrating the use of the crematorium or photographers after the liberation of Dachau; Red Cross tents at Mauthausen; and prisoner portraits, including one of a Soviet prisoner with his name and prisoner number tattooed on his chest. Also includes one smaller photograph with caption describing the image of the reburial of bodies taken from a mass grave in Wetterfield, Germany.
Date: manufacture: 1945
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ginny Helgeson
Collection Creator: Claude E. McGraw

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Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Ginny Helgeson donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. They are from her father's collection.