Commemoration - group scenes and wreath laying (RG 294.5, Folder 175)

20 items. The ribbon on a wreath visible in some photographsbears a dedication from the Committee of former political concentration camp prisoners, Hanover (Hauptausschuss ehem. politischer Häftlinge, Hannover). Included is the envelope that originally contained all the Hanover photographs. It has a preprinted return address of the president of the state Labor office (Landesarbeitsamt) of Lower Saxony, in Hanover, addressed to the president of the Committee for political refugees (Hauptausschuss für politische Verfolgte), Hanover, postmarked July 5, 1946; a handwritten note in Yiddish describes the contents as pictures of commemorations (fayerungen) of a group (gezelshaft) of former concentration camp prisoners, mostly non-Jewish. photographs have stamp of photographer Els Lessmann, Hannover.Digital ImageDigital finding aid available