A Polish man, Walter Kallaur and his son, Michael, bury the boy's grandmother, Elizabeth Kallaur who died in the Nordhausen concentration camp, as American soldiers look on.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 01203

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Caption: A Polish man, Walter Kallaur and his son, Michael, bury the boy's grandmother, Elizabeth Kallaur who died in the Nordhausen concentration camp, as American soldiers look on.

Elizabeth's head had been severed shortly before liberation. The Kallaur family was sent to Nordhausen as punishment for helping Jews in the Pinsk region.

These survivors would not allow the Germans to touch their dead, even after Colonel D.B. Hardin ordered the civilian population of the town of Nordhausen to bury the corpses of prisoners found in the Nordhausen concentration camp.
Photographer: PFC Gilbert Mjoen
Date: 1945 April 13 - 1945 April 14
Locale: Nordhausen, [Thuringia] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Nancy & Michael Krzyzanowski

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Nancy & Michael Krzyzanowski

Source Record ID: LNA 62775

Keyword: BURIAL CHILDREN (4-12 YEARS) CHILDREN/YOUTH CONCENTRATION CAMPS CORPSES DORA-MITTELBAU GRAVES/MARKERS/TOMBSTONES NORDHAUSEN POLES SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) SUB-CAMPS SURVIVORS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dora-Mittelbau Sub-camps -- Nordhausen -- LIBERATION -- Victims/Burial/Confrontation