Overview
- Description
- Consists of three photographs taken in the spring of 1945 inside the Dachau concentration camp. The photographs, which Holocaust survivor Leo Sadinsky remembered taking off the body of a German soldier, depict a pile of corpses, a body next to a wall, and a group of prisoners in uniforms behind a barbed wire fence. The photograph of the pile of bodies is dated April 15, 1945 on the verso.
- Date
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acquired:
1945-1945
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jef Adin in memory of his father, Leon Sadinsky
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
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1 folder
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- Conditions on Access
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- Conditions on Use
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Keywords & Subjects
- Personal Name
- Sadinsky, Leo.
- Corporate Name
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Jef Adin donated his father's photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Leo Sadinsky, a Holocaust survivor from Kaunas [Kovno], Lithuania, survived Dachau and found these photographs on the body of a deceased German soldier in the final weeks of April 1945.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 13:39:30
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