Joseph Barko photograph collection
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Joseph J. Barko (1916-2008) was born in Albany, PA. He served with the U.S. Conservative Corps under President Franklin Roosevelt, and in the US Army during WWII. He married Elizabeth Patrick and the couple had four children: Marrianne Takacs, Nancy Wagner, Barbara Dennish, and Joseph Barko.
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Joseph Barko photograph collection
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The collection consists of photographs found by United States Army serviceman Joseph Barko during WWII. Includes photographs taken from a Wehrmacht soldier depicting various military troops and activities, and liberation photographs taken at the Ebensee concentration camp. There are additional liberation photographs from Mauthausen, Buchenwald, Ludwigslust Palace, Solingen-Ohligs, and Dachau.
The collection is arranged as three folders: 1. Concentration camp liberation photographs, 1945; 2. Ebensee concentration camp, circa 1945; 3. Wehrmacht, 1939-circa 1945.