Overview
- Description
- The collection contains four photographs taken after Buchenwald's liberation in April 1945 that show American soldiers, survivors, and German civilians. All photos are stamped on verso with the name, address, and phone number of the donor as well as notes written in English that detail what is being depicted in each photograph. Includes images of victim bodies, German civiliians gathered around what is noted on verso to be a human skin lamp, and the gallows.
- Date
-
1945 April
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rudy Baum
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
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1 folder
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany. Concentration camp inmates--Germany.
- Geographic Name
- Thuringia (Germany)
- Corporate Name
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Rudy Baum donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-06 07:22:20
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn612234
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