Overview
- Description
- Relates to the work of the American Field Service (C and D Platoons) at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after liberation. Contains information about starvation of prisoners; sanitation in the camp; disease; forms of execution used in the camp; mass burials of Bergen-Belsen victims; medical care for survivors; and activities of specific AFS personnel during the post-liberation clean up of the camp.
- Date
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1945-1985
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
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1 oversize folder
- System of Arrangement
- Arrangement is thematic
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing station. There are no additional access restrictions 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
- Atrocities. Burial. Concentration camps--Officials and employees, Female. Diaries. Diseases. Holocaust survivors. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Health aspects. International relief. Jewish children. Typhus fever. Sanitation. Starvation. Women. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation. Jews--Czechoslovakia.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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American Field Service Archives and Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Materials were obtained from the American Field Service Archives and Museum by Genya Markon, Director United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives, ca. 1991. She turned them over to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Mar. 1993.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 08:50:41
- This page:
- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503746
Download & Licensing
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Terms of Use
- This record is not digitized and cannot be downloaded online.
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