Railway cars loaded with the corpses of prisoners who died on route to Dachau from other concentration camps.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 06532

Overview

Caption: Railway cars loaded with the corpses of prisoners who died on route to Dachau from other concentration camps.

Original caption reads, "[?] atrocity camp: scattered about [?] car in the yards of the Dachau concentration camp, are bodies of the prisoners who died enroute from [?] concentration camps. 7th US. Army troops who liberated Dachau, found 50 box cars each loaded with
bodies."
Date: 1945 April 30
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Event History: The Dachau death train consisted of nearly forty railcars containing the bodies of between 2,000 and 3,000 prisoners who were evacuated from Buchenwald on April 7, 1945. The train arrived in Dachau on the afternoon of April 28.

[Source: "Allemagne, avril-mai 1945: Photographies d'Eric Schwab." Centre historique des Archives nationales, Paris 2003, p. 52.]

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005162.

Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 111-SC-206191 (Album 1469)

Keyword: CONCENTRATION CAMPS CORPSES DACHAU DEATH TRAINS DEATH TRAINS (DACHAU) PHOTOGRAPHS (SIGNAL CORPS) TRAINS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau -- LIBERATION -- Victims -- Death Train