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Close-up of a corpse covered with a blanket and lying on the grounds of the Woebbelin concentration camp.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 81699

Close-up of a corpse covered with a blanket and lying on the grounds of the Woebbelin concentration camp.

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Caption: Close-up of a corpse covered with a blanket and lying on the grounds of the Woebbelin concentration camp.
Date: May 1945
Locale: Woebbelin, [Mecklenburg] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Kenneth E. Legge, Estate

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Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Kenneth E. Legge, Estate

Second Provenance: John & Ruth Legge

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Keyword: BLANKETS CLOSE-UPS CONCENTRATION CAMPS CORPSES INTERIORS NEUENGAMME SUB-CAMPS WOEBBELIN
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Neuengamme Sub-camps -- Woebbelin -- LIBERATION -- Victims/Burial/Confrontation

Record last modified:: 2015-12-15 00:00:00
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