Belsen Horror Camp Trials Open at Nurenberg
Object numberM1995/070:010
TitleBelsen Horror Camp Trials Open at Nurenberg
DescriptionBlack and white press photographs documenting the holocaust. Attached to back is a label typed in English - "Josef Kramer, the Beast of Belsen", and his 43 associates from Belsen and Auschwitz concentration camps, sat for hours under the floodlights in a converted military gymnasium at Luneberg, Germany, for their mass trial in a British Court. This is the first of the great war criminal trials. Photo shows: - Irma Grese, one of the women accused in the Belsen trial, being helped from an Army truck when she arrived for the trial at Luneberg.
Production placeLuneberg, Germany
Production date 1945-09-18
Subjectcourt procedures, perpetrators
Object namephotographs
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Michele Harrison
