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Inventory of the Bernard Warshaw Holocaust Atrocity Photographs, 1942-1945, circa 2000
Inventory of the Bernard Warshaw Holocaust Atrocity Photographs, 1942-1945, circa 2000
Descriptive Summary
| Abstract: | The collection consists of approximately 70 Holocaust atrocity photographs taken in Dachau concentration camp by Bernard Warshaw, a captain in the U.S. Army. Photographs show bodies of victims on the grounds and outside the crematorium. |
| Title: | Bernard Warshaw Holocaust atrocity photographs |
| Creator: | Warshaw, Bernard, 1920- |
| Date(s): | 1942-1945, circa 2000 |
| Extent: | 0.25 linear feet (4 folders) |
| Repository: | Jewish Heritage Collection, Special Collections, College of Charleston Libraries 66 George Street Charleston, SC 29424 Phone: (843) 953-8016 Fax: (843) 953-6319 URL: http://archives.library.cofc.edu |
| Call Number: | Mss 1065-027 |
| Language of Material: | Materials in English |
Biographical Note
Bernard Warshaw was born in 1920 in Walterboro, South Carolina. He entered the U.S. Army in June 1942, less than one month after graduating from The Citadel. He served in Italy, France, and Germany during World War II with the 433rd Automatic Weapons Battalion, an anti-aircraft unit.
Warshaw visited Dachau concentration camp with the colonel of his unit the day after it was liberated by U.S forces. The colonel provided Warshaw with a camera and instructed him to take photographs to document the atrocities in the camp.
Warshaw returned to the United States in October 1945 and worked in his family's clothing business in Walterboro.
Collection Overview
The collection consists of approximately 70 Holocaust atrocity photographs taken in Dachau concentration camp by Bernard Warshaw, a captain in the U.S. Army. Photographs show bodies of victims on the grounds and outside the crematorium. Includes a 1942 photograph of Warshaw in Camp Stewart, Georgia, as well as three circa 2000 postcards from Dachau showing the grounds, crematorium, and fence.
Collection Arrangement
Materials are described at the folder level.
Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person, family, or organization, by topical subject, by place, and by types of material.Names
- Warshaw, Bernard, 1920-
- United States. Army
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany
Places
- Dachau (Germany)
Types of Material
- Black-and-white negatives
- Black-and-white photographs
- Digital images
- Photo CDs
- Photocopies
- Postcards
Related Resources
Related Material
Related materials in College of Charleston Special Collections include two oral history interviews of Bernard Warshaw in 1996 and 1997 (Mss 0135-063, Mss 1035-140). A 2008 interview of Bernard Warshaw for The Citadel Oral History Program is available in the Lowcountry Digital Library.
Inventory
Photocopies of items in folder 1. Also includes brief field notes from researcher Sheila Rodin-Novak.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Copyright Notice
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Bernard Warshaw Holocaust atrocity photographs, College of Charleston Libraries, Charleston, SC, USA.
Acquisitions Information
Materials were donated in 2000 by Bernard Warshaw.
Processing Information
Processed by Rebecca McClure, November 2011.
Encoded by Rebecca McClure, March 2012.
Reviewed, edited, and uploaded by Martha McTear, March 2012.
Funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources supported the processing of this collection and encoding of the finding aid.
