Protestant, Catholic and Jewish chaplains conduct funeral services for the reburial of 71 political prisoners, exhumed from a mass grave near Solingen-Ohligs, in front of the city hall.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 08195

Overview

Caption: Protestant, Catholic and Jewish chaplains conduct funeral services for the reburial of 71 political prisoners, exhumed from a mass grave near Solingen-Ohligs, in front of the city hall.

The victims, most of whom were taken from Luettringhausen prison, were shot and buried by the Gestapo following orders to eliminate all Reich enemies just before the end of the war.
Photographer: Edward Symsek
Date: 1945 May 01
Locale: Solingen-Ohligs, [Prussian Rhineland; North Rhine-Westphalia] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 111-SC-265443 (Album 3213)

Second Record ID: 153-Case files 1944-49--box 289--file 12-543
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Ilona Shechter

Second Provenance: Defense Audiovisual Agency

Keyword: ATROCITIES (SOLINGEN) BURIAL CLERGY/CHAPLAINS (CHRISTIAN) CLERGY/RABBIS/CHAPLAINS (JEWISH) CORPSES EXHUMATION/REBURIAL FORCED CONFRONTATION FUNERALS GERMANS GRAVES/MARKERS/TOMBSTONES MASS GRAVES SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
Photo Designation: LIBERATION -- Germany: Atrocities/Death March Victims -- Other -- Solingen