Overview
- Description
- The Regis Gignoux papers include a three-page typed letter and three photographs documenting Buchenwald concentration camp immediately following liberation. The letter was written by Gignoux’s commanding officer, a pilot who flew reporter Percy Knauth and photographers Marguerite Higgins, Margaret Bourke-White, and Lee Miller to the Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945. The letter describes their arrival at the camp and the conditions they found there. The photographs depict victims in Buchenwald.
- Date
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creation:
1945
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Louise Gignoux
- Collection Creator
- Regis Gignoux
- Biography
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Regis Gignoux (1923-2005) was born in France on March 10, 1923 to Gerard Gignoux and Claudine Huffer. He served as a pilot in the U.S. military during World War II. On one mission, he was supposed to fly reporter Percy Knauth and photographers Marguerite Higgins, Margaret Bourke-White, and Lee Miller to the Buchenwald concentration camp, but his commanding officer chose to fly them himself. Gignoux died in France on January 21, 2005.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Personal narratives. Photographs.
- Extent
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1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- The collection is unarranged.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation. Holocaust victims. Holocaust survivors.
- Geographic Name
- Germany.
- Personal Name
- Higgins, Marguerite, 1920-1966. Bourke-White, Margaret, 1904-1971. Miller, Lee, 1907-1977. Knauth, Percy, 1914-1995. Boyd, Max.
- Corporate Name
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Louise Gignoux donated the Louise Gignoux papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2006.
- 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:
- 2024-11-07 11:12:01
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