us-005578-irn560273
title: John J. Garvey collection
has or had holder: us-005578
type: RecordSet
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scope and content: Contains photographs taken by John J. Garvey (donor’s father), who enlisted in the US Army in 1939 and served in 62nd Armored Field Artillery Battalion. He fought in North African Campaign, in the invasion of Sicily and took part in the D-Day crossing. Corporal Garvey’s unit liberated the Hurlach concentration camp, a Kaufering IV sub camp of Dachau, on April 30, 1945. Includes a photograph showing prisoner corpses, annoted on the verso: “ Camp Hurlach” Germany 1945 – Bodies of human beings”; in pencil.
has record set type: Item
record resource extent: folder 1
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
identifier: irn560273
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