Gardelegen photographs

Identifier
irn36173
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2008.251.1
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Mary Alice Feinstein

Mary Alice Feinstein donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in August 2008.

Scope and Content

Consists of 11 photographs taken of the Gardelegen atrocity, including photographs of corpses carried on stretchers in preparation for burial. Also includes one letter, dated July 28, 1945, written by Daniel J. McCue, Jr. in Bad Aibling, Germany, to his father, Daniel J. McCue, Sr. In the letter, McCue writes that he is enclosing photographs taken "at a concentration camp..snapped by one of our boys." The photographs are marked "Dachau" on the verso, but depict Gardelegen.

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