Kenneth Kravis photograph collection

Copyright Holder: Mr. Kenneth Kravis Kenneth Kravis served as a member of F Company, 2nd Battalion, 405th Regiment, United States 102nd Infantry Division. On April 14, 1945, Kravis with the 102nd Infantry Division entered Gardelegen, Germany and discovered the remains of the massacre of prisoners by the SS. Kravis witnessed and photographed the exhumation and reburial of the victims of the Gardelegen massacre. The Kenneth Kravis photograph collection contains 22 annotated photographs taken by Kravis of the discovery and aftermath of the Gardelegen massacre in Germany, April 1945. On April 14, 1945, the 102nd Infantry Division entered Gardelegen, Germany and discovered the remains of the massacre of prisoners by the SS. The victims had been burned alive in a barn. Following the discovery, German civilians were forced to exhume the victims’ bodies for reburial in single graves. On April 25, 1945, a ceremony was held to erect a memorial tablet and honor the victims. The Kenneth Kravis photograph collection contains photographs of the barn, the victims, the exhumation and reburial of the bodies, the memorial ceremony and cemetery.