Women enter the Merxhausen sanitorium gates.

Photograph | Not Digitized | Photograph Number: 85472

Overview

Caption: Women enter the Merxhausen sanitorium gates.

The inscription on the back of the photograph reads, "Women coming in from work. Merxhausen."
Date: 1945
Locale: Merxhausen, [Hesse; Kassel] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Ralph McComb, Estate
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

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

Keyword: DP CAMPS/CENTERS HOSPITALS/INFIRMARIES/CLINICS WOMEN
Photo Designation: LIBERATION -- Germany: General -- Liberated Prisoners/Medical Care