Object ID
2016.1.44
Object Name
Print, Photographic
Date
1941
Files
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Description
Front: Image of many men lined up, four Germans in uniform stand apart from them; Back: handwriting in blue ink
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Photograph taken prior to an execution by a Nazi soldier. On verso is solder’s writing in which he describes the lineup of partisans and Jews and states that the “snipers came first” but the partisans “cried like children.” Germans invaded the Soviet Union as part of Operation Barbarossa on June 22, 1941, and Minsk, in Belarus, was attacked immediately. It was the hub of significant partisan resistance, as well as the location of a large Jewish Ghetto.
Dimensions
2 3/4 x 3 7/8"
Keywords
Partisans, Jews, Operation Barbarossa, Binsk, Belarus
Subcollection
Bullets
Recommended Citation
"Lineup Prior to Assassination of "Partisans and Jews" in Minsk" (1941). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2016.1.44.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1304