us-005578-irn523622
type: RecordSet
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
date: 1945 June
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had subject: 701
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn523622
record resource extent: folder 1
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: Consists of 27 photographs depicting Clifford Byrum, other United States soldiers, and German prisoners exhuming infants' graves at a Volkswagen maternity hospital and Kinderheim (children's home) in Rühen, Germany, during the investigation of Nazi atrocities. A maternity hospital and Kinderheim was established by the Volkswagen corporation in Rühen, Germany, in March 1943 for children born to Polish and Russian forced laborers working at the VW factory in Wolfsburg. Because of unsanitary conditions and neglect at the Kinderheim, approximately 365 children under the age of 16 months died there between April 1943 and April 1945.
title: Clifford C. Byrum photograph collection