Overview
- Description
- 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.
- Date
-
creation:
1945 June
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Clifford C. Byrum
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
-
1 folder
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
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Germany--Wolfsburg (Lower Saxony) World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany--Rühen. Atrocities--Germany--Rühen--1940-1950. Maternity hospitals--Germany--Rühen--1940-1950. Dead persons--Germany--Rühen--1940-1950. Graves--Germany--Rühen--1940-1950. Soldiers--American--Germany--Rühen--1940-1950.
- Corporate Name
- Volkswagen AG
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Clifford C. and Ruby Byrum in 1999.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-07 11:21:10
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn523622
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