C-1-1

Item — Box: 3

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

This colleciton contains panels and framed photographs from a 2010 exhibit shown at the University of Alabama in Huntsville's M. Louis Salmon Library. Also included is the website designed to support the exhibit.

Dates

Creation: 2010

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research in the Archives & Special Collections reading room. Handling guidelines and use restrictions will be communicated and enforced by archives staff members.

Biographical / Historical

In March 1944, the French prisoner Guy Boisot captured the arresting image of the final excavation work for the factory tunnels. Prisoners break the rock with a pneumatic drill, while others clear away the blocks with the aid of a mining cart. In the background, the silhouette of a Kapo (fellow prisoner serving as a camp guard), with a night stick in his hand. (Private collection)