Jacob Yessenow collection

Overview

Collection Summary

The collection consists of photographs: post-liberation images of victims in the former Mauthausen concentration camp. Images include piles of bodies in wagons, laid and waiting to be buried and placed in mass graves by local Austrian bystanders. Also included is a view of the camp and interior barracks where surviving victims still remained; dated circa May 1945. Photographs belonged to Jacob Yessenow (donor's father) a member of the US Army's 11th Armored Division. The collection also includes two cameras used by Jacob Yessenow to take photographs of victims in the former Mauthausen concentration camp.

Provenance

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 and in 2020 by Joyce Hallet, the daughter of Jacob Yessenow.