A pile of clothing stripped off of corpses found on the death train.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 12815

Overview

Caption: A pile of clothing stripped off of corpses found on the death train.
Date: May 1945
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Everett Balmer
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: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Everett Balmer

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