Portrait of a US soldier by George Byfield, a former camp inmate, after liberation
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Portrait of a US soldier by George Byfield, a former camp inmate, after liberation
Portrait of a US soldier by George Byfield, a former camp inmate, after liberation
1945 July
overall: Height: 22.125 inches (56.198 cm) | Width: 17.125 inches (43.498 cm)
pictorial area: Height: 18.500 inches (46.99 cm) | Width: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm)
Framed watercolor portrait made for Captain William Adams Bridgforth, United States 7th Army, by Gyorgy Beifeld (George Byfield), in Dachau concentration camp after liberation in exchange for a pack of cigarettes. Byfield had been an prisoner at the camp, which was liberated by the United States 7th Army on April 19, 1945. Byfield had been deported from Budapest to a concentration camp following the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944.