A German civilian transports the recently exhumed corpses of prisoners to a nearby site where they will be reburied.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 80472

Overview

Caption: A German civilian transports the recently exhumed corpses of prisoners to a nearby site where they will be reburied.
Photographer: Don Bradler
Date: 1945 May 11
Locale: Estedt, [Saxony-Anhalt; Gardelegen] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Event History: During a death march of Polish, Russian, and Jewish prisoners from Mieste to Gardelegen, a number of prisoners escaped into the Zichtauer Forest, where some of them were spotted by local farmers, who immediately alerted the police. After the arrival of German authorities, the prisoners were captured and marched to a site near Estedt. There they had large graves dug and the prisoners were shot on the spot.

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Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 153-Case files 1944-49--box 314--file 12-647 to 12-662

Keyword: ATROCITIES (GARDELEGEN) CARTS/WAGONS CORPSES CORPSES (REMOVAL OF) DEATH MARCHES (DORA) EXHUMATION/REBURIAL FORCED CONFRONTATION GERMANS JEWS POLES RUSSIANS/SOVIETS
Photo Designation: LIBERATION -- Germany: Atrocities/Death March Victims -- Other -- Estedt