Survivors of the Dachau concentration camp demonstrate the operation of the crematorium by pushing a corpse into one of the ovens.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 15027

Overview

Caption: Survivors of the Dachau concentration camp demonstrate the operation of the crematorium by pushing a corpse into one of the ovens.
Date: 1945 May 04
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of R. Harrison
Event History: These photographs, including posed reenactment photographs in the crematorium, were taken by a committee of former Yugoslav prisoners for their records and then widely distributed to American soldiers. [source: photo caption by American liberator, Staff Sergeant Frank Magid]

See https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005214.
See Also "Dachau Main Camp" in Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, Volume 1, Part A.
See Also https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005131.

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: R. Harrison
Zydowski Instytut Historyczny imienia Emanuela Ringelbluma

Copyright: Agency Agreement

Source Record ID: Sygn. 2312

Keyword: CONCENTRATION CAMPS CORPSES CREMATORIA DACHAU INSPECTIONS INTERIORS REENACTMENTS/SIMULATIONS SURVIVORS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau -- LIBERATION -- Crematoria/Gas Chambers/Human Remains