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Two young women on the grounds of the Merxhausen sanitorium.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 85464
Two young women on the grounds of the Merxhausen sanitorium. The inscription on the back of the photograph reads, "Merxhausen, Germany 1945."

Two young women on the grounds of the Merxhausen sanitorium.

The inscription on the back of the photograph reads, "Merxhausen, Germany 1945."

Date
1945
Locale
Merxhausen, [Hesse; Kassel] Germany
Photo Designation
LIBERATION -- Germany: General -- Liberated Prisoners/Medical Care
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Ralph McComb, Estate

About This Photograph

Event History
Merxhausen was a state sponsored facility for mentaly ill people, established on the site of a former monastery. Under the Nazi regime, many patients there were killed under their "euthanasia" program. After 1942, it served as a military hospital, and after the war it was used as a sanitorium for displaced persons recovering from illness.

Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kloster_Merxhausen

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Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Ralph McComb, Estate
Second Provenance: Mary McComb
Source Record ID: Collections: IRN 543022
Second Record ID: Collections: 2016.262.1
 
Record last modified: 2017-11-21 00:00:00
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