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1. George Pratt Wooters photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2008.48.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945
… 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…
2. Large, rusted metal key recovered from Chelmno killing center
1989.308.30 side a
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.30
Date:
use: before 1942 September
recovered: 1986-1987
… threat of disease and discovery by Allied forces, so the bodies were exhumed and burned in seven primitive pit furnaces. In the fall of 1942, the furnaces…
3. Rusted heel plate with a screw and nail recovered from Chelmno killing center
1989.308.24 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.24
Date:
use: before 1942 September
recovered: 1986-1987
… threat of disease and discovery by Allied forces, so the bodies were exhumed and burned in seven primitive pit furnaces. In the fall of 1942, the furnaces…
4. Bent, rusted teaspoon recovered from Chelmno killing center
1989.308.13 top
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.13
Date:
use: before 1942 September
recovered: 1986-1987
… threat of disease and discovery by Allied forces, so the bodies were exhumed and burned in seven primitive pit furnaces. In the fall of 1942, the furnaces…
5. American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors Photographs
Document | Accession Number: 1992.28
…The American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors photographs consists of 21 photographs, primarily post-liberation images of Jews in Poland, exhuming…
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 … Polish military uniforms, standing at the side of an open mass grave. Transcription/Inscription in Polish: "Fragment of an exhumation of bodies of people…
6. Metal buckle frame recovered from Chelmno killing center
1989.308.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.17
Date:
recovered: 1986-1987
use: before 1942 September
… threat of disease and discovery by Allied forces, so the bodies were exhumed and burned in seven primitive pit furnaces. In the fall of 1942, the furnaces…
7. Rusted heel plate with screw recovered from Chelmno killing center
1989.308.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.6
Date:
use: before 1942 September
recovered: 1986-1987
… threat of disease and discovery by Allied forces, so the bodies were exhumed and burned in seven primitive pit furnaces. In the fall of 1942, the furnaces…
8. Corroded metal heel plate recovered from Chelmno killing center
1989.308.26 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.26
Date:
use: before 1942 September
recovered: 1986-1987
… threat of disease and discovery by Allied forces, so the bodies were exhumed and burned in seven primitive pit furnaces. In the fall of 1942, the furnaces…
9. Four eyeglass lenses recovered from Chelmno killing center
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.29 a-d
Date:
use: before 1942 September
recovered: 1986-1987
… threat of disease and discovery by Allied forces, so the bodies were exhumed and burned in seven primitive pit furnaces. In the fall of 1942, the furnaces…
10. Small metal key recovered from Chelmno killing center
1989.308.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.15
Date:
recovered: 1986-1987
use: before 1942 September
… of disease and discovery by Allied forces, so the bodies were exhumed and burned in seven primitive pit furnaces. In the fall of 1942, the furnaces…
11. Partial upper plate of a denture with five teeth recovered from Chelmno killing center
1989.308.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.7
Date:
use: before 1942 September
recovered: 1986-1987
… created a threat of disease and discovery by Allied forces, so the bodies were exhumed and burned in seven primitive pit furnaces. In the fall of 1942, the…
12. Partial button recovered from Chelmno killing center
1989.308.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.10
Date:
recovered: 1986-1987
use: before 1942 September
… threat of disease and discovery by Allied forces, so the bodies were exhumed and burned in seven primitive pit furnaces. In the fall of 1942, the furnaces…
13. Metal tailor's thimble recovered from Chelmno killing center
1989.308.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.8
Date:
recovered: 1986-1987
use: before 1942 September
… threat of disease and discovery by Allied forces, so the bodies were exhumed and burned in seven primitive pit furnaces. In the fall of 1942, the furnaces…
14. Nail recovered from Chelmno killing center
1989.308.28 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.28
Date:
use: before 1942 September
recovered: 1986-1987
… of disease and discovery by Allied forces, so the bodies were exhumed and burned in seven primitive pit furnaces. In the fall of 1942, the furnaces…
15. Map of the former extermination camp at Chelmno compiled by archaeologists excavating the site
1989.308.32 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.32
Date:
creation: 1989
depiction: 1986-1989
Title:
PLAN BYŁEGO OBOZU ZAGŁADY w CHEŁMNIE NAD NEREM
Alternate Title:
MAP OF THE FORMER EXTERMINATION CAMP IN CHELMNO ON THE NER
… bodies were exhumed and burned in seven primitive pit furnaces. In the fall of 1942, the furnaces were replaced with two open-air crematoria consisting of…
16. Oral history interview with Yadviga Petukhovskaya
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.437.47 | RG Number: RG-50.674.0047
Date:
2012 February 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… intelligentsia; and identifying exhumed bodies after the war.…
17. Oral history interview with Stepanida Jegorova
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2003.456.43 | RG Number: RG-50.568.0043
Date:
interview: 2005 August 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… exhumation and burning of corpses in 1943 by local townspeople under German orders; the arrival of the Soviet Army in 1944; the reburial of Jewish remains; and…
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 … smaller group of Jews, about 50 people; describes how a year later (1943) local men, mostly Russians, were forced by the Germans to exhume the bodies of…
18. Bent metal fork recovered from Chelmno killing center
1989.308.22 back
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.22
Date:
use: before 1942 September
recovered: 1986-1987
… of disease and discovery by Allied forces, so the bodies were exhumed and burned in seven primitive pit furnaces. In the fall of 1942, the furnaces…
19. Metal teaspoon recovered from Chelmno killing center
1989.308.21 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.21
Date:
use: before 1942 September
recovered: 1986-1987
… threat of disease and discovery by Allied forces, so the bodies were exhumed and burned in seven primitive pit furnaces. In the fall of 1942, the furnaces…
20. Partial pocket watch casing recovered from Chelmno killing center
1989.308.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.9
Date:
recovered: 1986-1987
use: before 1942 September
… created a threat of disease and discovery by Allied forces, so the bodies were exhumed and burned in seven primitive pit furnaces. In the fall of 1942, the…