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American soldiers give a gun salute during the funeral of the victims of the Gardelegen massacre.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 75527
American soldiers give a gun salute during the funeral of the victims of the Gardelegen massacre. The original caption reads: "Ninth US Army troops salute political prisoners who were killed by the Germans in a barn at Gardelegen, Germany. The bodies of 1016 victims were reburied in individual graves dug by nearby townsmen."

American soldiers give a gun salute during the funeral of the victims of the Gardelegen massacre.

The original caption reads: "Ninth US Army troops salute political prisoners who were killed by the Germans in a barn at Gardelegen, Germany. The bodies of 1016 victims were reburied in individual graves dug by nearby townsmen."

Photographer
Josef E. Von Stroheim
Date
1945 April 25
Locale
Gardelegen, [Prussian Saxony; Saxony-Anhalt] Germany
Photo Designation
LIBERATION -- Germany: Atrocities/Death March Victims -- Gardelegen -- Burial
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of David Dembowitz

About This Photograph

Biography
Rabbi Morris Dembowitz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1915. His family had originally come from the Bialystok region of Poland. Morris Dembowitz attended Yeshiva University and then received rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary. He married Leonore Markson in 1942. He served as a chaplain during World War II and was stationed first in Rouen, then in the children's home Ecouis where he worked with child survivors of Buchenwald and eventually in the Heidenheim displaced persons camp. Among his activities was the overseeing of the exhumation and reburial of Jewish victims of the Holocaust. He later served as the Executive Director of the Board of Rabbis of Greater Philadelphia. Rabbi Dembowitz passed away in 2006.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: David Dembowitz
 
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