German civilians from Estedt attend the funeral services performed by a Catholic priest for prisoners exhumed from a mass grave near the town.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 82818

Photographer: Don Bradler
Date: 1945 May 12
Locale: Estedt, [Saxony-Anhalt; Gardelegen] Germany
Photo Designation: LIBERATION -- Germany: Atrocities/Death March Victims -- Other -- Estedt
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Event History: During a death march of Polish, Russian, and Jewish prisoners from Mieste to Gardelegen, a number of prisoners escaped into the Zichtauer Forest, where some of them were spotted by local farmers, who immediately alerted the police. After the arrival of German authorities, the prisoners were captured and marched to a site near Estedt. There they had large graves dug and the prisoners were shot on the spot.

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10006173.
Keyword: ATROCITIES (GARDELEGEN)
BURIAL
DEATH MARCHES (DORA)
EXHUMATION/REBURIAL
FORCED CONFRONTATION
FUNERALS
GERMANS
RELIGIOUS SERVICES/PRAYER
Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 153-Case files 1944-49--box 314--file 12-661
: Record last modified: 2003-10-24 00:00:00
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