Emaciated body of a prisoner at Landsberg, found by the liberating American 7th Army.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 49655

Overview

Caption: Emaciated body of a prisoner at Landsberg, found by the liberating American 7th Army.

Original caption reads: "The Landsberg Atrocity: The emaciated bodies of Jewish prisoners bear evidence of the slow death by starvation they were undergoing before having been locked in their wooden huts by retreating Nazi prison guards, who set the huts afire and left. These inmates managed to muster enough strength to break out of their huts but not before they succumbed to the smoke and flames."
Photographer: Edward C. Newell
Locale: Landsberg, [Bavaria] Germany
Variant Locale: Landsberg Am Lech
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Stuart McKeever

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Stuart McKeever

Source Record ID: Collections: 1996.A.71

Keyword: ATROCITIES CLOSE-UPS CONCENTRATION CAMPS CORPSES LANDSBERG LIBERATION DAY PRISONERS SUB-CAMPS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau Sub-camps -- Kaufering (Lager I, Landsberg)