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Pictures of corpses pasted into a photograph album titled "Buchenwald/or a Glance at German "Kultur"" by Murray Bucher.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 54920
Pictures of corpses pasted into a photograph album titled "Buchenwald/or a Glance at German "Kultur"" by Murray Bucher. The page is entitled "Monuments to German Thinking!!"

Pictures of corpses pasted into a photograph album titled "Buchenwald/or a Glance at German "Kultur"" by Murray Bucher.

The page is entitled "Monuments to German Thinking!!"

Date
1945
Locale
Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Photo Designation
MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Buchenwald -- LIBERATION -- Miscellaneous
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Jay Levine

About This Photograph

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

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Jay Levine
Source Record ID: Collections: 2013.333.1
 
Record last modified: 2015-05-05 00:00:00
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