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Two German soldiers sit inside a vandalized synagogue in Krakow.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 12447

Two German soldiers sit inside a vandalized synagogue in Krakow.

Overview

Caption: Two German soldiers sit inside a vandalized synagogue in Krakow.
Date: Circa 1940
Locale: Krakow, [Krakow] Poland
Variant Locale: Krakau
Cracow
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Muzeum Historii Fotografii Krakowskiego Towarzystwa Fotograficznego

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Photo Source: Muzeum Historii Fotografii Krakowskiego Towarzystwa Fotograficznego

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 1893/182

Keywords & Subjects

Keyword: DESECRATION DESTRUCTION/VANDALISM INTERIORS KRAKOW SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN) SYNAGOGUES/CHAPELS
Photo Designation: GHETTOS (MAJOR) -- KRAKOW (Poland) -- Destruction/Desecration/Confiscation of Property

Record last modified:: 1997-02-26 00:00:00
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