Munn Nigro photograph collection

Identifier
irn515656
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1992.88
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn515656

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.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany.
  • Gardelegen (Germany)
  • Dead persons--Germany--Gardelegen--1940-1950.
  • Massacres--Germany--Gardelegen--1940-1950.
  • Soldiers--American--Germany--Gardelegen--1940-1950.
  • Gardelegen Massacre, Gardelegen, Germany, 1945.

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.