us-005578-irn523424
type: RecordSet
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
biographical history: Regis Gignoux (1923-2005) was born in France on March 10, 1923 to Gerard Gignoux and Claudine Huffer. He served as a pilot in the U.S. military during World War II. On one mission, he was supposed to fly reporter Percy Knauth and photographers Marguerite Higgins, Margaret Bourke-White, and Lee Miller to the Buchenwald concentration camp, but his commanding officer chose to fly them himself. Gignoux died in France on January 21, 2005.
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 some members with language: eng
has or had subject: 686
has or had subject: 904
has or had subject: 701
has or had subject: 43
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has record set type: Item
identifier: irn523424
record resource extent: folder 1
record resource structure: The collection is unarranged.
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: The Regis Gignoux papers include a three-page typed letter and three photographs documenting Buchenwald concentration camp immediately following liberation. The letter was written by Gignoux’s commanding officer, a pilot who flew reporter Percy Knauth and photographers Marguerite Higgins, Margaret Bourke-White, and Lee Miller to the Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945. The letter describes their arrival at the camp and the conditions they found there. The photographs depict victims in Buchenwald.
title: Regis Gignoux papers