Corpses at Bergen-Belsen
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- Collection
- MONTREAL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTRE (MHMC-01)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 9,9 cm
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
1 image
- Collection
- MONTREAL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTRE (MHMC-01)
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper ; Ht: 7 cm x W: 9,9 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- B&w photograph with a white border. An outdoor portrait of corpses that were found at Bergen-Belsen upon the camp's Liberation. There is a mound of clothing visible through the dirt. A male body is emaciated and is found on top of the others. The man's eyes were open when he died and his left hand is reaching towards his face. Narrative: A collection of photographs was brought back to Canada by RAF soldier Frank Wilshaw, who visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after Liberation.
- Accession No.
- 2012.05.10
- Name Access
- Stobnicky, Arnie
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre
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