Ebensee liberation photograph
- Date
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1945 May 06
- Genre/Form
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Photograph.
- Extent
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1 Photographic negative.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Sydney Bruskin
Contains a picture taken by Sydney Bruskin, an American soldier with the 80th Infantry Division Counter Intelligence Corps, at the liberation of the Ebensee Concentration Camp.
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Record last modified: 2018-04-27 13:29:18
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Also in Sidney Bruskin collection
The collection consists of a sign relating to the experiences of Sidney Bruskin as a soldier in the United States Army in Germany during World War II.
Date: 1945 May
Text only sign found at Ebensee concentration camp crematorium by an American soldier
Object
Sign found by Sidney Bruskin, an American soldier, at the liberation at Ebensee concentration camp. The sign was removed from above an oven door inside the crematorium. The text is an epitaph expressing a wish for cremation. Bruskin served with the 80th Infantry Division Counter Intelligence Corps.
