Overview
- Description
- The Edda Treforest photograph collection consists of photographs depicting nurses treating patients at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after liberation, the canteen that Samuel Treforest opened at Bergen-Belsen after World War II, and Edda Treforest as a young woman. The photographs were likely taken by Samuel Treforest.
- Date
-
creation:
circa 1945-1947
- Collection Creator
- Edda Treforest
- Biography
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Edda Treforest (b. Edda Wind) was a Holocaust survivor and was employed as a translator for Ms. E.I. England, head of the British Red Cross contingent at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Her husband, Samuel Treforest was a United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation (UNRRA) official who took photographs of Bergen-Belsen concentraiton camp.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
-
1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- The Edda Treforest 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. Military hospitals--Germany--1940-1950. Nurses--Germany. Sick persons--1940-1950. Monuments & memorials--Germany--1940-1950. Canteens (Wartime, emergency, etc.)--Germany--1940-1950. Crematoriums--Germany--1940-1950.
- Geographic Name
- Germany.
- Personal Name
- Treforest, Edda. Treforest, Samuel.
- Corporate Name
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Edda Treforest donated the Edda Treforest photograph collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992.
- 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 14:11:37
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn515707
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