German soldiers patrol a public square in Czestochowa, where the bodies of those they shot have been collected.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 26829

Overview

Caption: German soldiers patrol a public square in Czestochowa, where the bodies of those they shot have been collected.

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 CORPSES EXECUTIONS JEWS (POLISH) POLES PUBLIC SQUARES SHOOTINGS SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN) STREET SCENES
Photo Designation: GHETTOS (MINOR) -- (C)