Overview
- Description
- Contains 11 black and white photographs taken by George Pratt Wooters (donor's husband), US Army Private First Class, who was stationed in Germany 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 officers in the area forced imprisoned SS POWs housed nearby to exhume corpses and lay them out on either side of the ravine above the mass grave.
- Date
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inclusive:
1945
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Florence Payne Wooters
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
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1 folder
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The Museum is in the process of determining the possible use restrictions that may apply to material(s) in this collection.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Exhumation--Europe.
- Geographic Name
- Nammering (Germany)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Curatorial Affairs Department
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Created by George Pratt Wooters (donor's husband), near Nammering, Germany, April-May 1945. Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008 by Florence Payne Wooters.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 17:51:19
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn34867
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- Terms of Use
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