C-6-1

Item — Box: 5

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 January 1945, with train loads of prisoners evacuated from the eastern camps (Auschwitiz, Gross-Rosen) arriving at Dora, the number of dead was so high that the camp crematorium was unable to keep up. Pyres were then lit in the open air. Maurice de la Pintiére’s drawing, done after his return from Dora, recalls this scene.