Corpses lie in one of the open railcars of the Dachau death train.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 00416

Photographer: David Edward Lyne Jr.
Date: 1945 April 29
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau -- LIBERATION -- Victims -- Death Train
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

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.]
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005162.
Keyword: CONCENTRATION CAMPS
CORPSES
DACHAU
DEATH TRAINS
DEATH TRAINS (DACHAU)
PHOTOGRAPHS (SIGNAL CORPS)
TRAINS
Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 338-Cases Tried--box 289--file 000-50-2
County of Allegheny, Division of Photography

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 198780
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Unknown Source
: Record last modified: 2013-08-29 00:00:00
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