Dachau liberation photograph
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Congregation Beth Shalom of the Blue Hills
Found by Rabbi Alfred H. Benjamin inside the pages of a tanakh at Congregation Beth Shalom of the Blue Hills. Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Congregation Beth Shalom of the Blue Hills.
Scope and Content
Photographic print: black and white image of concentration camp survivors in striped prisoner uniforms unloading corpses from a wagon behind the crematorium at the Dachau concentration camp; the bodies were later interred in mass graves by German civilians from Dachau; no inscription on verso.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Photograph.
- Document
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