us-005578-irn42593
type: RecordSet
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
date: 1945 April
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had subject: 42
has or had subject: 701
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn42593
record resource extent: folder 1
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: Contains nine photographs taken at liberation of the Bergen Belsen concentration camp in April 1945 by British Army photographers. Three of the photographs show the dire conditions for the liberated women prisoners; one photograph depicts British POWs suffering from malnutrition; five photographs show the corpses of the murdered inmates and burial in mass graves by the SS personnel on orders from the British Army.
title: Walter Rhodes photograph collection