First page of a photograph album titled "Buchenwald/or a Glance at German "Kultur"" by Murray Bucher.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 54913

Overview

Caption: First page of a photograph album titled "Buchenwald/or a Glance at German "Kultur"" by Murray Bucher.
Date: 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Jay Levine
Event History: Photograph album titled "Buchenwald/or a Glance at German "Kultur"" by Murray Bucher (donor's uncle), creator of the album. Album was created in a blank book 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. Dwight D. Eisenhower's form letter for D-Day included, salutation "To Murray" has been added

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Jay Levine

Source Record ID: Collections: 2013.333.1

Keyword: ALBUMS BUCHENWALD CONCENTRATION CAMPS PHOTOGRAPHS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Buchenwald -- LIBERATION -- Miscellaneous