American soldiers view one of the railcars of the Dachau death train.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 00357

Overview

Caption: American soldiers view one of the railcars of the Dachau death train.
Date: 1945 April 30
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of County of Allegheny, Division of Photography
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.]

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Photo Source: County of Allegheny, Division of Photography

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 198770

Keyword: CONCENTRATION CAMPS CORPSES DACHAU DEATH TRAINS DEATH TRAINS (DACHAU) SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) TRAINS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau -- LIBERATION -- Victims -- Death Train