Wuerzburg, Germany, Jews being led to the train station by German police, 25/04/1942.

They marched through town from the assembly center at the Platzscher Garten, along Hindenburgstrasse, to the railroad station. The photograph is from the files of the Wuerzburg branch of the Gestapo office in Nuremberg-Fuerth. The collection, consisting of approximately 1200 files and an album with 128 photographs, describes and depicts the deportation of Mainfranken Jews from Wuerzburg and Kitzingen. It was discovered in a barrack at Oberursel/Taunus by Isaac E. Wahler, who was then working in the office of Dr. Robert Kempner, American Deputy Chief of Counsel for War Crimes. The files were entered into evidence at several war crime trials, including the Ministries Trial, Case 11 of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings (1947). In the 1950s the collection was given over to the German authorities. It was housed first in the office of the state attorney for the district of Nuremberg-Fuerth and later (since 1984) at the Bayerische Staatsarchiv Wuerzburg. The Jews from Mainfranken area were rounded-up and deported to ghettos and concentration camps in the east in six transports, beginning in November 1941 and ending in June 1943 . In all 2,063 Jews from Mainfranken were deported between 1941 and 1943.