Overview
- Description
- Contains three photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp at liberation. One photograph shows a concentration camp oven and two photographs show a large pile of corpses in front of a building.
- Date
-
creation:
1945
- Collection Creator
- Casper Vollero
- Biography
-
Casper Vollero, a member of the 406th Infantry Division, Company L, Ozark Division, took these photographs at the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
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1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- Arrangement is by original order
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany. Dead persons--Germany--1940-1950. Crematoriums--Germany--1940-1950.
- Geographic Name
- Weimar (Germany)
- Corporate Name
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection by transfer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collections Department in Sept. 1995. The Collections Department received the photographs from Casper Vollero.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:05:54
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501140
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