Photographs, negatives, and other material relating to Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, Germany, 1945.

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Photographs, negatives, and other material relating to Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, Germany, 1945.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/169904900

Photographs, negatives, and slides likely taken by the U.S. Army Signal Corps of the Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps.

2 black and white photographs, 2 negatives and 2 slides.

Holocaust Center of Northern California, Holocaust Library and Research Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 6916201

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