1981 International Liberators Conference collection Gardelegen

Identifier
irn502621
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • RG-09.005.15
Dates
1 Jan 1981 - 31 Dec 1981
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn502621

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Scope and Content

Contains letters of testimony and articles by United States Army troops relating to the April 1945 massacre of slave laborers who were crowded into a barn near the town of Gardelegen, Germany, that was set afire, burning them all to death.

Corporate Bodies

  • United States. Army. Army, 9th
  • United States. Army. Infantry Division, 405th
  • United States. Army. Cavalry, 44th
  • United States. Army. Infantry Division, 102nd

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
  • Forced labor--Germany.
  • Massacres--Germany.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
  • Gardelegen Massacre, Gardelegen, Germany, 1945.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany.
  • Prisoners of war--Germany.

Genre

  • Document
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