George Pratt Wooters photograph collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Curatorial Affairs Department
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Florence Payne Wooters
Created by George Pratt Wooters (donor's husband), near Nammering, Germany, April-May 1945. Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008 by Florence Payne Wooters.
Scope and Content
Contains 11 black and white photographs taken by George Pratt Wooters (donor's husband), US Army Private First Class, who was stationed in Germany during WWII. The photos document exhumed corpses from a mass grave near Nammering, Germany that was discovered by US troops on April 28, 1945; American officers in the area forced imprisoned SS POWs housed nearby to exhume corpses and lay them out on either side of the ravine above the mass grave.
Subjects
- Exhumation--Europe.
- Nammering (Germany)
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.