A group of Jewish men, who have been rounded-up by German soldiers, await execution on a street in Czestochowa. In front of them lie the corpses of those who were shot earlier.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 26825

Overview

Caption: A group of Jewish men, who have been rounded-up by German soldiers, await execution on a street in Czestochowa. In front of them lie the corpses of those who were shot earlier.

One photograph from an album belonging to a member of a Wehrmacht machine gunners' unit, which was found after the war by Lorenzo Hawkins (the donor's grandfather), an American serviceman in Company B, 56th Armored Engineer Battalion.
Date: 1939 September 03 - 1939 September 08
Locale: Czestochowa, [Katowice] Poland
Variant Locale: Chenstokhov
Tschenstochau
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of B. Ashley Grimes II

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: B. Ashley Grimes II

Keyword: ALBUMS ARRESTS/CAPTURE CORPSES EXECUTIONS JEWS (POLISH) MILITARY VEHICLES ROUND-UPS SHOOTINGS SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN) STREET SCENES
Photo Designation: GHETTOS (MINOR) -- (C)