Survivors liberated by Japanese-American troops with the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion line the road into the town of Waakirchen where U.S. forces set up a field hospital to care for them.
Photograph | Photograph Number: 07747
- Date
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1945 May 01 - 1945 May 04
- Locale
- Waakirchen, [Bavaria] Germany
- Photo Designation
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LIBERATION -- Germany: General -- Liberated Prisoners/Medical Care
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Eric Saul
Survivors liberated by Japanese-American troops with the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion line the road into the town of Waakirchen where U.S. forces set up a field hospital to care for them.
The survivors are Jews from Kovno, who were liberated near the town of Waakirchen while on a death march from the Dachau sub-camp of Kaufering.
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Record last modified: 2003-10-28 00:00:00
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