Overview
- Description
- The photographic negative depicts American soldiers looking at a mound of corpses in front of an incinerator building at Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation.
- Date
-
creation:
1945 April 11
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of William Alexander Scott III
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Film negatives.
- Extent
-
1 folder
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. Soldiers--American--Germany--1940-1950.
- Geographic Name
- Germany.
- Corporate Name
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- William Alexander Scott III donated the photographic negative of corpses at Buchenwald to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992
Created by William Alexander Scott, III, April 1945, Buchenwald concentration camp. - 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:
- 2023-06-13 15:59:21
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn515577
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