Visitors view a photomural of a victim of the Gardelegen atrocity at the "Lest We Forget" exhibition at the Library of Congress.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 10623

Overview

Caption: Visitors view a photomural of a victim of the Gardelegen atrocity at the "Lest We Forget" exhibition at the Library of Congress.
Date: 1945 June 30
Locale: Washington, DC United States
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Martin Luther King Memorial Library
Event History: "Lest We Forget" was a two week exhibition of "life-size" photomurals depicting the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps that was displayed at the Library of Congress from June 30 through July 14, 1945. Co-sponsored by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), the exhibition consisted of reproductions of photographs made by the U.S. Army Signal Corps, the Associated Press and the British Information Service. "Lest We Forget" came to the Library of Congress from St. Louis, where the exhibition was viewed by over 80,000 people during its three week run at the Post-Dispatch Mechanical Annex. The photomurals depict liberation scenes from the concentration camps of Buchenwald, Nordhausen, Ohrdruf, Leipzig-Thekla and Bergen-Belsen. They also display Nazi atrocities committed at Schwarzenfeld and Gardelegen. At the formal opening of the exhibition in Washington, D.C. on June 30, speeches were made by Sen. Alben W. Barkley (Ky.); Sen. Walter F. George (Ga.); Sen. Leverett Saltonstall (Ma.); Rep. Dewey Short (Mo.); and Benjamin M. McKelway, Associate Editor of The Evening Star.

Photo Source: Martin Luther King Memorial Library

Copyright: Public Domain

Provenance: Washington Star

Keyword: AMERICANS ATROCITIES (GARDELEGEN) EXHIBITIONS (ANTI-NAZI) EXHIBITIONS/DISPLAYS LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SPECTATORS/AUDIENCES/BYSTANDERS
Photo Designation: WORLD RESPONSE (1933-1955) -- Anti-Nazi Exhibitions