Clifford C. Byrum photograph collection
Extent and Medium
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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--Conscript labor--Germany--Wolfsburg (Lower Saxony)
- Soldiers--American--Germany--Rühen--1940-1950.
- Maternity hospitals--Germany--Rühen--1940-1950.
- Graves--Germany--Rühen--1940-1950.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany--Rühen.
- Atrocities--Germany--Rühen--1940-1950.
- Dead persons--Germany--Rühen--1940-1950.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.