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John E. Meyer photographs

Document | Accession Number: 2013.325.1

Date: 1945 April-1945 April (inclusive)
Language: English
Genre/Form: Photographs.
Extent: 7 photographs.
1 document.
Extent: 1 folder
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Arlene Werts

Document Creator: John E. Meyer
Biography: John E. Meyer was born on May 14, 1919 in Elmore, Ohio. He served in the 45th Ordnance Company as a member of the Fifth Army, Seventh Division of the United States Military. As a member of the 45th, he participated in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp.
Topical Term: World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Dachau.
Personal Name: Meyer, John E.
Corporate Name: United States. Army. Ordnance Ammunition Company, 45th.
Dachau (Concentration camp)
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Arlene Werts donated her father's photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2018-02-06 14:31:33
This page: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn60719

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