Overview
- Description
- The Helen Surosky photograph collection consists of seven photographs of the liberation of Dachau concentration camp. The pictures show the victims corpses. All of the photographs have captions on the verso.
- Date
-
creation:
1945 April
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
-
1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- The Helen Surosky photograph collection is arranged in a single series.
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--Dachau. Carts & wagons--Germany--Dachau--1940-1950. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation. Holocaust victims. Concentration camp inmates. Holocaust victims--Germany.
- Geographic Name
- Germany.
- Corporate Name
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The photographs were created by an unknown photographer at Dachau in Apr. 1945. Helen Surosky donated them to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 via Bernard Fishman at the Jewish Historical Society at Maryland.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 14:10:13
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn515214
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