Gardelegen liberation photograph

Identifier

irn715015

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2020.21.1

Level of Description

Item

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn715015

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Todd Mason

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2020 by Todd Mason.

Scope and Content

Contains a black and white photograph of three corpses of prisoners shot by the SS laying in the doorway of a barn just outside of Gardelegen; caption on verso: "March 1945 / Gardalagen [sic] / 20 miles east of Hanover Germany."

Subjects

Gardelegen (Germany)
Gardelegen massacre, 1945.

Genre

Document
Photographs.

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.