A group of concentration camp prisoners who were liberated on a death march from Dachau, sit on a bench waiting to receive food from Japanese-American soldiers with the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 07746

Overview

Caption: A group of concentration camp prisoners who were liberated on a death march from Dachau, sit on a bench waiting to receive food from Japanese-American soldiers with the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion.
Photographer: Lt. Al Benoti
Date: 1945 May 01 - 1945 May 04
Locale: Waakirchen, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Eric Saul
Event History: The 522nd Field Artillery operated as an independant battalion in the southern German campaign in the spring of 1945. The enlisted men of the battalion were all Japanese Americans from the west coast and Hawaii. Units of this battalion liberated prisoners on one of the death marches from Dachau near the town of Waakirchen on May 2, 1945.

Keyword: BENCHES CONCENTRATION CAMPS DACHAU DEATH MARCH SURVIVORS GROUP PORTRAITS SUB-CAMPS
Photo Designation: LIBERATION -- Germany: General -- Liberated Prisoners/Medical Care