Survivors of the Dachau concentration camp demonstrate the operation of the crematorium by preparing a corpse to be placed into one of the ovens.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 15028

Overview

Caption: Survivors of the Dachau concentration camp demonstrate the operation of the crematorium by preparing a corpse to be placed into one of the ovens.

The young man standing on the far right has been identified as Franciszek Kedziora (b. 1924 ), who was taken from Kielce.
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. 2313

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