Gravestone
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn60111
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 2 3/4 in. x W: 4 in.
- Date
- 1955-1957
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 2 3/4 in. x W: 4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1955-1957
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- English
- German
- Notes
- b&w picture of a gravestone in form of a simple sign that reads: "Here lie buried 2000 bodies" in English and German and the date 23/04/1945 Narrative: The grave was dug up and a wooden board was placed on the earth as a memorial for the buried death inmates of the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. The donor and her late husband Thomas took these photos in 1955 - 1957 when they were stioned in Germany. Her husband was a soldier in the Canadian army and then became part of the NATO peacekeeping troops.
- Accession No.
- 2000.102.11
- Name Access
- Quinsey, June
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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