James H. Mahoney collection

Overview

Collection Summary

Consists of a collection of photographs taken at the Buchenwald concentration camp immediately after the liberation of the camp, as well as a Rolleiflex camera discovered at the camp. Dr. James Mahoney, a member of the 120th Evacuation Hospital, took the photographs of the liberation and brought the camera home with him.

Provenance

The collection was donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2002 by Tracy Mahoney. She added the camera to the collection in 2013.