Jewish survivors walk behind a wagon of coffins during a funeral procession through the snow covered streets of Czestochowa.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 02341

Overview

Caption: Jewish survivors walk behind a wagon of coffins during a funeral procession through the snow covered streets of Czestochowa.

In the coffins are the exhumed bodies of Jews killed by the Germans in the small ghetto. The exhumation was conducted by the Jewish Religious Society of Czestochowa.
Date: January 1945
Locale: Czestochowa, [Katowice] Poland
Variant Locale: Chenstokhov
Tschenstochau
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Benjamin (Miedzyrzecki) Meed

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Benjamin (Miedzyrzecki) Meed

Source Record ID: Collections: 1992.28.12
Published Source: Jewish Daily Forward - Patt, Jacob - The Forward Association

Keyword: CARTS/WAGONS COFFINS COLUMNS (OF PEOPLE) CZESTOCHOWA DPS (JEWISH) EXHUMATION/REBURIAL FUNERALS GHETTO/OCCUPATION HEARSES/FUNERAL WAGONS JEWS (POLISH) STREET SCENES SURVIVORS WINTER SCENES
Photo Designation: DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Poland