Gardelegen photographs
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Mary Alice Feinstein
Mary Alice Feinstein donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in August 2008.
Scope and Content
Consists of 11 photographs taken of the Gardelegen atrocity, including photographs of corpses carried on stretchers in preparation for burial. Also includes one letter, dated July 28, 1945, written by Daniel J. McCue, Jr. in Bad Aibling, Germany, to his father, Daniel J. McCue, Sr. In the letter, McCue writes that he is enclosing photographs taken "at a concentration camp..snapped by one of our boys." The photographs are marked "Dachau" on the verso, but depict Gardelegen.
Subjects
- Gardelegen (Germany)--History.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.
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