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A survivor stokes smoldering human remains in a crematorium oven that is still lit.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 00315

A survivor stokes smoldering human remains in a crematorium oven that is still lit.

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Caption: A survivor stokes smoldering human remains in a crematorium oven that is still lit.
Date: 1945 April 29 - 1945 May 01
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Francis Robert Arzt

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Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Francis Robert Arzt

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Keyword: CONCENTRATION CAMPS CREMATORIA DACHAU HUMAN REMAINS SURVIVORS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau -- LIBERATION -- Crematoria/Gas Chambers/Human Remains

Record last modified:: 2011-11-23 00:00:00
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