Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Photographs Produced by the US Army Preventive Medicine Department – End of World War II – Germany and Austria, April-May 1945
Opening: $3,000
Sold for: $4,750
Including buyer's premium
1. Nazi Concentration Camps April & May 1945, photo-folder produced by the US Army, DIV Preventive Medicine APO 887, Office of the Chief Surgeon. Printed on the cover: "…the soil of typhus…"
Forty six photos, all ink-stamped on the reverse "Army Pictorial Service" and annotated in detail, in English. Portraying photos of the liberation and of medical care, separated with dividers, according to concentration camps where the photos were taken: Amphing, Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Lambach, Landsberg, Ludwigslust, Penig, Wuppertal, Ebensee, Mauthausen. Photos 12.5X18 cm, very good condition. Folder 36 cm, torn cover.
2-6. Five press-photos, end of WW II (April 1945), ink-stamped on the reverse Signal Corps Photo (US Army): some are annotated. 25.5X21 cm. Good condition.
Some of the photos are disturbing.
From the estate of Dr. John E. Gordon (Chief of Preventive Medicine, Western front, United States Army). Attached is a letter sent to Dr. Gordon, classified as "Secret".
Forty six photos, all ink-stamped on the reverse "Army Pictorial Service" and annotated in detail, in English. Portraying photos of the liberation and of medical care, separated with dividers, according to concentration camps where the photos were taken: Amphing, Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Lambach, Landsberg, Ludwigslust, Penig, Wuppertal, Ebensee, Mauthausen. Photos 12.5X18 cm, very good condition. Folder 36 cm, torn cover.
2-6. Five press-photos, end of WW II (April 1945), ink-stamped on the reverse Signal Corps Photo (US Army): some are annotated. 25.5X21 cm. Good condition.
Some of the photos are disturbing.
From the estate of Dr. John E. Gordon (Chief of Preventive Medicine, Western front, United States Army). Attached is a letter sent to Dr. Gordon, classified as "Secret".
Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pleita
Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pleita