Overview
- Description
- Consists of Signal Corps images of the wartime European and Pacific theaters, of the liberation of concentration camps, and of the Nuremberg trials. Includes images of the liberation of the Braunschweig, Bergen-Belsen, Braunlage, Buchenwald, Dachau, Dortmund, Ebensee, Flossenbürg, Landsberg, Neunburg, Nordhausen, Ohrdruf, Schwabmünchen, Schwarzenfeld, Struthof, Woebbelin, and Wuelfel concentration camps and atrocity sites.
- Date
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inclusive:
1939-1946
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ronald Leidelmeyer
- Collection Creator
- United States Army Signal Corps
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 box
1 oversize box
- System of Arrangement
- The photographs are organized in three series: Series 1: Photographs related to the European and Pacific Theaters; Series 2: Photographs of the liberation of concentration camps; Series 3: Photographs of the Nuremberg Trials. The photographs of the concentration camps in series 2 are in alphabetical folders.
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. Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946.
- Geographic Name
- Braunlage (Germany) Neunburg vorm Wald (Germany) Schwabmünchen (Germany) Schwarzenfeld (Germany) Wülfel (Hannover, Germany)
- Corporate Name
- United States. Army. Signal Corps Braunschweig (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Dachau (Concentration camp) Dortmund (Concentration camp) Ebensee (Concentration camp) Flossenbürg (Concentration camp) Landsberg (Concentration camp) Dora (Concentration camp) Ohrdruf (Concentration camp) Struthof (Concentration camp) Wöbbelin (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Ronald Leidelmeyer donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013. His parents worked in The Hague after the war; his mother worked as a secretary for SHAEF.
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- 2024-01-23 11:58:43
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Also in Reinald Leidelmeyer collection
Consists of Signal Corps images of the wartime European and Pacific theaters, of the liberation of concentration camps, and of the Nuremberg trials. Includes images of the liberation of the Braunschweig, Bergen-Belsen, Braunlage, Buchenwald, Dachau, Dortmund, Ebensee, Flossenbürg, Landsberg, Neunburg, Nordhausen, Ohrdruf, Schwabmünchen, Schwarzenfeld, Struthof, Woebbelin, and Wuelfel concentration camps and atrocity sites. Also includes a oral history interview with Dr. Reinald Leidelmeyer, who was a member of the Dutch Resistance in the Hague, recorded ca. 1994. He describes his arrest, being sent to a slave labor camp, and finally being released after feigning illness.
Oral history interview with Reinald Leidelmeyer
Oral History
Reinald Leidelmeyer describes his experience as a member of the Dutch Resistance in the Hague; details of his arrest; his time in a slave labor camp; and actions that led to his release.
