Clifford C. Byrum photograph collection

Identifier
irn523622
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1999.264.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn523622

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Clifford C. Byrum

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Clifford C. and Ruby Byrum in 1999.

Scope and Content

Consists of 27 photographs depicting Clifford Byrum, other United States soldiers, and German prisoners exhuming infants' graves at a Volkswagen maternity hospital and Kinderheim (children's home) in Rühen, Germany, during the investigation of Nazi atrocities. A maternity hospital and Kinderheim was established by the Volkswagen corporation in Rühen, Germany, in March 1943 for children born to Polish and Russian forced laborers working at the VW factory in Wolfsburg. Because of unsanitary conditions and neglect at the Kinderheim, approximately 365 children under the age of 16 months died there between April 1943 and April 1945.

Corporate Bodies

  • Volkswagen AG

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany--Rühen.
  • Maternity hospitals--Germany--Rühen--1940-1950.
  • Graves--Germany--Rühen--1940-1950.
  • Dead persons--Germany--Rühen--1940-1950.
  • Atrocities--Germany--Rühen--1940-1950.
  • Soldiers--American--Germany--Rühen--1940-1950.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Germany--Wolfsburg (Lower Saxony)

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.