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The Kenneth Kravis photograph collection contains 22 annotated photographs taken by Kravis of the discovery and aftermath of the Gardelegen massacre in Germany, April 1945. On April 14, 1945, the 102nd Infantry Division entered Gardelegen, Germany and discovered the remains of the massacre of prisoners by the SS. The victims had been burned alive in a barn. Following the discovery, German civilians ...

Contains of a memoir written by Chris J. Battersby on an unknown date, describing his experiences with a Holocaust survivor near Gardelegen, Germany, in April 1945. Also includes an excerpt of a unit history for the 102nd Infantry Division relating to the Gardelegen Massacre.

(LIB 5724) "MURDER, INC.", Gardelegen, Germany, 16 April 1945. Slate indicating cameraman Bowen from the 405th Regiment (102nd Infantry Division). The Isenschnibbe estate. Scorched doorways. US soldiers set up tripod outside crematorium. A pile of bricks. 00:00:36 CU of an empty, open grave. SS guards were unable to bury all of the bodies before the 102nd Infantry arrived in Gardelegen. 00:00:46 A ...

Consists of three photographs taken by Staff Sgt. Herbert G. Birch of the Gardelegen atrocity. Also includes a newspaper clipping, dated April 20, 1945, which describes Gardelegen.

Consists of one letter, four pages, written by Lt. Margaret House, a member of the 91st Evacuation Hospital, on April 18, 1945, after witnessing the atrocities at Gardelegen. She compares the idyllic German countryside with the horrors of the things she had witnessed.

Consists of correspondence, a clipping, and copies of testimony related to Dr. Howard Hoffman. As an American soldier, he was a member of the 102nd Infantry Division and witnessed the aftermath of the Gardelegen atrocity. The collection includes a copy of Hoffman's recollections and information about his corrections to the exhibit text in 1978 at Yad Vashem which had misidentified Gardelegen as a concentration ...

Photographs taken at Gardelegen showing victims of the atrocity, the confrontation between American servicemen and local German officials, and civilians being forced to participate in the exhumation and reburial of victims.

"KZ: Bildbericht aus fünf Konzentrationslagern," published by Amerikanischen Kriegsinformationsamt, with handwritten annotations by George Leftoff. The pamphlet contains information about and photographs of Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, Nordhausen, and Ohrdruf concentration camps, and information and photographs relating to the massacre at Gardelegen Germany. Also contains a photograph of a former concentration ...

Consists of nine photographs. Eight of the photographs depict scenes of the Gardelegen Massacre. The ninth photograph is identified as an aerial view of a former labor camp near Braunschweig. All of the photographs include original English inscriptions on the versos and are associated with the service of Peter Tabaracci, who served with the 4th Signal Battalion.

Consists of nine photographs depicting the immediate aftermath of the Gardelegen Massacre, including images of the burial of victims.

Consists of five photographs taken by PFC George F. Seigman after the liberation of Gardelegen. Includes photographs taken of the corpses of victims and from within the trenches which were dug to bury the victims. PFC Seigman was a member of the 89th Chemical Mortar Battallion, which went through Gardelegen on May 8, 1945, while traveling to attach to the 102th division of the Ninth Army.

Consists of four photographs depicting scenes associated with the discovery of the Gardelegen Massacre by U.S. forces in April 1945. The photographs belonged to Edgar R. Hoffmann, a Technician Fifth Grade who served with the 464th Ordnance Evacuation Company. Hoffmann was in service in Europe between May 1944 and November 1945. Original inscriptions are included on the reverse of three of the four ...