Overview
- Description
- Consists of enlarged original photographic prints with original captions in English and German taken by members of the Ninth Army, United States military, in the aftermath of the Gardelegen atrocity. Includes photographs of victims of the massacre and of the burial of the corpses. Also includes a letter, dated 24 December 1946 and signed by "A. Kamerman," regarding a recording of the "Treblinka Song" by two children; the letter accompanied the original phonograph of this recording.
- Date
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creation:
1945
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of David Dembowitz
- Collection Creator
- Morris Dembowitz
- Biography
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Rabbi Morris Dembowitz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1915. His family had originally come from the Bialystok region of Poland. Morris Dembowitz attended Yeshiva University and then received rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary. He married Leonore Markson in 1942. He served as a chaplain during World War II and was stationed first in Rouen, then in the children's home Ecouis where he worked with child survivors of Buchenwald and eventually in the Heidenheim displaced persons camp. Among his activities was the overseeing of the exhumation and reburial of Jewish victims of the Holocaust. He later served as the Executive Director of the Board of Rabbis of Greater Philadelphia. Rabbi Dembowitz passed away in 2006.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographs. Letter.
- Extent
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1 oversize box
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- Conditions on Access
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Gardelegen massacre, 1945.
- Geographic Name
- Gardelegen (Germany)
- Corporate Name
- United States. Army. Army, 9th
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- David Dembowitz donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014. They belonged to his father, Rabbi Morris Dembowitz, who was an Army chaplain. Rabbi Dembowitz received these from Arnold Wolters.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 16:32:57
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Also in Morris Dembowitz collection
The collection consists of a poster, documents, and photographic prints relating to the discovery of Gardelegen and Ohrdruf concentration camps in Germany and a letter attesting to the origin of the "Treblinka Song" record.
Date: approximately 1945 May
US Army poster confronting German civilians with the atrocities at Ohrdruf concentration camp
Object
Poster titled "You Should Know" printed by the United States Army to confront German citizens about the atrocities at Ohrdruf concentration camp, the first camp ligerated by US soldiers.
Child survivors sing the Treblinka song
Recorded Sound
