us-005578-irn513625
type: RecordSet
has beginning date: 1945-01-01
has end date: 1945-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had identifier: 2
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had subject: 701
has or had subject: 483
has or had subject: 904
has or had subject: 43
has record set type: Item
history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
identifier: irn513625
record resource extent: folder 1
record resource structure: Collection is arranged in its original order
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: The collection contains gelatin-silver photographs of the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945. The photographs include scenes of camp buildings, instruments of torture, lamp shades made by Ilse Koch, newly freed prisoners of the concentration camps, bodies of camp victims, human remains, Allied soldiers within the camps, crematoriums, and prisoners displaying their tattooed numbers. The photographs were created by members of the United States Air Force 30th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron in 1945.
title: Donald R. Wheeler photographs