Munn Nigro photograph collection
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Munn Nigro
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Munn Nigro donated the Munn Nigro photograph collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992.
Scope and Content
The Munn Nigro photograph collection consists of nine photographs of corpses from the massacre at Gardelegen, Germany taken by Munn Nigro, April 1945. Many of the photographs depict German citizens from surrounding villages burying the dead in mass graves supervised by American soldiers. Captions in English stamped on the verso.
System of Arrangement
The Munn Nigro photograph collection is arranged in a single series.
Subjects
- Mass burials--Germany--Gardelegen--1940-1950.
- Gardelegen (Germany)
- Massacres--Germany--Gardelegen--1940-1950.
- Soldiers--American--Germany--Gardelegen--1940-1950.
- Gardelegen Massacre, Gardelegen, Germany, 1945.
- Dead persons--Germany--Gardelegen--1940-1950.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.