Newly arrived prisoners, with shaven-heads, stand at attention in their civilian clothes during a roll call in the Buchenwald concentration camp.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 79914

Overview

Caption: Newly arrived prisoners, with shaven-heads, stand at attention in their civilian clothes during a roll call in the Buchenwald concentration camp.

Some still have their valises and other luggage with them. These prisoners were among the more than 10,000 German-Jews who were arrested during the Kristallnacht pogrom (November 9-10, 1938) and sent to Buchenwald. Another 20,000 German-Jews arrested at the same time were imprisoned in Dachau and Sachsenhausen.
Date: Circa 1938 November 10
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Robert A. Schmuhl

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Robert A. Schmuhl

Source Record ID: Collections: 1995.A.1119

Second Record ID: Collections: RG-10.137
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

Copyright: Agency Agreement

Keyword: BUCHENWALD CONCENTRATION CAMPS JEWS (GERMAN) KRISTALLNACHT PRISONERS ROLL CALL/LINE-UPS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Buchenwald -- PREWAR/WARTIME -- Roll Call