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Five Jewish survivors pose for a U.S. Signal Corps photographer in front of Block 2 in the Hannover-Ahlem concentration camp, a sub-camp of Neuengamme.

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    Five Jewish survivors pose for a U.S. Signal Corps photographer in front of Block 2 in the Hannover-Ahlem concentration camp, a sub-camp of Neuengamme.
    Five Jewish survivors pose for a U.S. Signal Corps photographer in front of Block 2 in the Hannover-Ahlem concentration camp, a sub-camp of Neuengamme. The man second from left is Sam Gottesman. The original caption reads "Liberated, a concentration camp near Hanover, Germany, these five Jews smile happily despite their starved and ill condition." The original Signal Corps caption reads, "PNA EA61998 U.S. TROOPS LIBERATE PRISONERS OF NAZIS Five sick and undernourished Jews are shown before one of the barracks of the Nazi Hanover-Harlen concentration camp near Hanover, Germany, following capture of the city by Ninth U.S. Army troops April 10, 1945. Hanover is 155 miles west of Berlin. U.S. Signal Corps Photo ETO-HQ-45-31748. SERVICED BY LONDON OWI TO LIST B-1 CERTIFIED AS PASSED BY SHAEF CENSOR

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    Five Jewish survivors pose for a U.S. Signal Corps photographer in front of Block 2 in the Hannover-Ahlem concentration camp, a sub-camp of Neuengamme.

    The man second from left is Sam Gottesman.

    The original caption reads "Liberated, a concentration camp near Hanover, Germany, these five Jews smile happily despite their starved and ill condition."

    The original Signal Corps caption reads,
    "PNA EA61998

    U.S. TROOPS LIBERATE PRISONERS OF NAZIS
    Five sick and undernourished Jews are shown before one of the barracks of the Nazi Hanover-Harlen concentration camp near Hanover, Germany, following capture of the city by Ninth U.S. Army troops April 10, 1945. Hanover is 155 miles west of Berlin. U.S. Signal Corps Photo ETO-HQ-45-31748.
    SERVICED BY LONDON OWI TO LIST B-1
    CERTIFIED AS PASSED BY SHAEF CENSOR
    Photographer
    Herbert Budowle
    Date
    1945 April 11
    Locale
    Hanover-Ahlem, [Prussian Hanover; Lower Saxony] Germany
    Variant Locale
    Hannover-Ahlem
    Ahlem
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

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    Photo Source
    National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
    Copyright: Public Domain
    Source Record ID: 111-SC-203537 (Album 3208)
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Michael Woskowitz
    Source Record ID: U.S. Army Signal Corps Photograph
    Second Record ID: Collections: Exh. Loan: Woskowitz, Michael
    Ministere des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre
    Copyright: Exclusively with source
    Source Record ID: 4/Guerre 1939-45: Europe, Liberation
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Ilona Shechter
    Second Provenance: Defense Audiovisual Agency

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