Nazi souvenirs from Buchenwald (human remains)

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Title

Nazi souvenirs from Buchenwald (human remains)

Creator

Izac, Edouard Victor Michel (Donor)
United States--Army--Signal Corps (Photographer)

Description

Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Exhibit of souvenirs made up by the Nazis at Buchenwald, seized by Gen. Patton's Third Army. German civilians are brought from town to gaze upon shrunken human heads, left, parts of organs of victims who died of various diseases, and stencillings and tatoo [sic] markings on sections of human skin, foreground, lamp at right was fabricated from skin of camp's dead." Numbered 47 on the reverse (Izac 15)

Identifier

06080100PHBU00IZACED009
06080100PHBU00IZACED009.JPG

Subject

Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
United States--Army--Army, 3rd
United States--Army--Signal Corps
Izac, Edouard Victor Michel

Source

1 silver gelatin print Image size: 4 1/2" x 6 1/2"; Paper size: 5" x 7 1/16" torn, bent, scratches, fingerprints, worn edges, damage on negative. Reverse of photo: 2 paper labels, tape, surface torn where tape removed, writing.

Date

4 - 16 - 1945

Contributor

Emory University
Encoded as part of the SAGE Digital Archive Project: A Collaborative Project between the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, 1997-2000.
Funding for the SAGE Digital Archive Project was provided by a local foundation.

Rights

Researchers should contact the repository for terms governing the use of the collection.

Relation

Negative. TIFF image (400 dpi). JPG image (72 dpi).

Format

JPG (72 dpi); 48 KB Digital image created as part of SAGE project, 1998.

Files

06080100PHBU00IZACED009.JPG

Collection

Citation

Izac, Edouard Victor Michel (Donor) and United States--Army--Signal Corps (Photographer), “Nazi souvenirs from Buchenwald (human remains),” Witness to the Holocaust, accessed May 4, 2024, https://witness.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/items/show/371.

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