George Pratt Wooters photograph collection

Identifier
irn34867
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2008.48.1
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn34867

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Curatorial Affairs Department

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Florence Payne Wooters

Created by George Pratt Wooters (donor's husband), near Nammering, Germany, April-May 1945. Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008 by Florence Payne Wooters.

Scope and Content

Contains 11 black and white photographs taken by George Pratt Wooters (donor's husband), US Army Private First Class, who was stationed in Germany during WWII. The photos document exhumed corpses from a mass grave near Nammering, Germany that was discovered by US troops on April 28, 1945; American officers in the area forced imprisoned SS POWs housed nearby to exhume corpses and lay them out on either side of the ravine above the mass grave.

Subjects

  • Exhumation--Europe.
  • Nammering (Germany)

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.