Overview
- Description
- The Judge Royce S. Weisenberger collection consists of photographs of men, women, and children being loaded into a train at Buchenwald concentration camp, June 1945; newspaper clippings regarding liberation and the arrest of Dr. Robert Karl Neuman; and a three-page testimony written by Major Royce S. Weisenberger on the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp and its conditions.
- Date
-
creation:
1945
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Royce S. Weisenberger
- Collection Creator
- Royce S. Weisenberger Sr.
- Biography
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Major Weisenberger was the Chief of the Military Government Section of the Sixth Armored Division when the Division took over Buchenwald.
Physical Details
- Extent
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1 oversize folder
- System of Arrangement
- The Judge Royce S. Weisenberger 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
- The donor, source institution, or a third party has asserted copyright over some or all of these material(s). The Museum does not own the copyright for the material and does not have authority to authorize use. For permission, please contact the rights holder(s).
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation. Soldiers--United States. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
- Geographic Name
- Germany.
- Personal Name
- Weisenberger, Royce S.
- Corporate Name
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Judge Royce S. Weisenberger, Sr. donated the Judge Royce S. Weisenberger collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991.
- 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 14:27:42
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