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Louis Bernard Katz photograph album

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2016.355.1

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Overview

Description: Loose photograph album of wartime photographs taken by Louis Bernard Katz, a field surgeon with the United States Army. The album includes photographs of the Ebensee subcamp of the Mauthausan concentration camp, Austria shortly after liberation; refugees in Waldenberg, Germany; and German prisoners-of-war in Simbach am Inn, Germany. Other cities documented include Mühlhausen, Germany; Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Germany, Lauf, Germany; Attnang, Austria; and Vöcklabruck, Austria. The album is annotated.
Date: inclusive: 1944-1945
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Judith Vigder.
Collection Creator: Louis B. Katz
Biography: Louis Bernard Katz was a field surgeon with the United States Army during World War II. He was married to Florence Weisblat Katz, and they had two children, Judith and Nathan.

Physical Details

Genre/Form: Photograph albums.
Extent: 1 oversize 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: Liberation--Germany. Concentration camp inmates--Austria--Ebensee. Refugees, Jewish. Prisoners of war--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Geographic Name: Mühlhausen (Thuringia, Germany) Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz (Germany) Waldenburg (Saxony, Germany) Simbach am Inn (Germany) Attnang-Puchheim (Austria) Vöcklabruck (Austria : Politischer Bezirk) Ebensee (Austria)
Personal Name: Katz, Louis Bernard.
Corporate Name: United States. Army Ebensee (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Judith Vigder in 2016. Judith is the daughter of Louis Katz.

Record last modified:: 2023-08-25 18:19:04
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