James H. Mahoney photograph collection

Document | Accession Number: 2002.428.1

Collection of 27 photographs of images of Buchenwald concentration camp immediately after its liberation.

Date: 1945
Genre/Form: Photographs.
Extent: 1 folder
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Tracy Mahoney

Document Creator: James Mahoney
Biography: James H. Mahoney was born in 1918. He graduated from Northwestern University medical school and served in the US army until 1946. While in the military, he was a member of the 120th Evacuation Hospital and provided medical treatment to liberated prisioners of Buchenwald concentration camp
Topical Term: World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Buchenwald--Germany--Photographs.
Personal Name: Mahoney, James H.
Corporate Name: Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Tracy Mahoney in 2002.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
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Also in James H. Mahoney collection

Consists of a collection of photographs taken at the Buchenwald concentration camp immediately after the liberation of the camp, as well as a Rolleiflex camera discovered at the camp. Dr. James Mahoney, a member of the 120th Evacuation Hospital, took the photographs of the liberation and brought the camera home with him.