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Photographs of Armenian genocide from the Armin T. Wegner collection

Document | Accession Number: 1987.88.1 | RG Number: RG-10.278

The collection consist of copy photographs depicting the results of the Armenian genocide from 1915 to 1923 in the Ottoman Empire. Images are of children and adults in various activities, corpses in ditches, hangings, Armenians as refugees living in tents in the Syrian desert, and piles of skulls and burned bodies.

Genre/Form
Photographs.
Extent
56 photographs : black and white.
1 microfiche.
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Administrative History

Holder of Originals
Armin T. Wegner Collection, Schiller-Nationalmuseum and Deutsches Literaturarchiv
Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
The copy photographs were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Tessa Hofmann in 1987.

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use
Restrictions on use. Copyright lies exclusively with source. Not for release without the permission of the Wallstein Verlag GmbH.
 
Record last modified: 2017-09-12 11:50:20
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