Overview
- Date
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Circa 1941 - 1942
- Locale
- Tilsit, [Kaliningrad] USSR
- Variant Locale
- Sovetsk,Russia
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Christopher Wutz
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Christopher Wutz
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Josef Herkert (the grandfather of the donor) was born on March 30, 1906 in Ruedenau, Germany. He served as a seargent in Police Battaion 323 first doing combat in the Smolensk area and then working as an instructor in Tilsit in western Russia. From late May to October 1942 he trained local auxilieraries in Kaunas, Lithuania. Afterwards Herkert returned to Germany and spent the remainder of the war in Wuerzburg.
- Record last modified:
- 2012-10-24 00:00:00
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