Overview
- Description
- 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.
- Date
-
creation:
1945 April
- Collection Creator
- Munn Nigro
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
-
1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- The Munn Nigro photograph collection is arranged in a single series.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Gardelegen Massacre, Gardelegen, Germany, 1945. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany. Massacres--Germany--Gardelegen--1940-1950. Soldiers--American--Germany--Gardelegen--1940-1950. Dead persons--Germany--Gardelegen--1940-1950. Mass burials--Germany--Gardelegen--1940-1950.
- Geographic Name
- Gardelegen (Germany)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Munn Nigro donated the Munn Nigro photograph collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 14:11:28
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn515656
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