Reinald Leidelmeyer collection

Overview

Collection Summary

Consists of Signal Corps images of the wartime European and Pacific theaters, of the liberation of concentration camps, and of the Nuremberg trials. Includes images of the liberation of the Braunschweig, Bergen-Belsen, Braunlage, Buchenwald, Dachau, Dortmund, Ebensee, Flossenbürg, Landsberg, Neunburg, Nordhausen, Ohrdruf, Schwabmünchen, Schwarzenfeld, Struthof, Woebbelin, and Wuelfel concentration camps and atrocity sites. Also includes a oral history interview with Dr. Reinald Leidelmeyer, who was a member of the Dutch Resistance in the Hague, recorded ca. 1994. He describes his arrest, being sent to a slave labor camp, and finally being released after feigning illness.

Provenance

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Ronald Leidelmeyer