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Murray Bucher collection

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2013.333.1

Overview

Description: Photograph album titled "Buchenwald/or a Glance at German 'Kultur'" by Murray Bucher (donor's uncle), creator of the album and a member of the United States Army Air Force, in 1945. Album was created in a blank book notebook, originally from Russia, and contains photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany. Album contains clipped newspaper articles about the camp, all in English, as well as photographs that depict American forces delousing former victims, remains of victims who did not survive, group photographs of child survivors, Jewish services being held at the camp, and German civilians forced to bury victims. Also includes a news clipping from an American newspaper, describing the aftermath of the Gardelegen atrocity. Dwight D. Eisenhower's form letter sent to American troops prior to D-Day is included, with the added salutation "To Murray."
Date: inclusive: 1944-1945
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jay M. Levine

Physical Details

Language: English
Genre/Form: Scrapbook.
Extent: 1 folder

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).
Copyright Holder: Mr. Jay Levine

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Soldiers--United States. Buchenwald (Concentration camp) World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection in 2013 by Jay M. Levine.

Record last modified:: 2023-02-24 13:41:26
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