Emaciated Jewish survivors pose in a barracks in the newly liberated Ampfing concentration camp, a sub-camp of Dachau.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 67871

Overview

Caption: Emaciated Jewish survivors pose in a barracks in the newly liberated Ampfing concentration camp, a sub-camp of Dachau.

Among those pictured is Leslie Keller (left) and Feri (right) from Szeged, Hungary. Keller was deported from his hometown of Oradea to Auschwitz on June 4, 1944. In January 1945 he was sent on a death march which ended in Amphing, where he was liberated on May 4.

The original caption reads "These inmates of the Ampfing concentration camp in Germany were recently liberated by U.S. Third Army troops. Out of 4,500 prisoners held in the camp, 2,500 died of starvation, were piled six high in a ditch and covered over with dirt."
Photographer: George Mallinder
Date: 1945 May 04
Locale: Ampfing, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 153-Case files 1944-49--box 313--file 12-639 to 12-646
Museum of Jewish Heritage/Center For Holocaust Studies

Copyright: Exclusively with source

Provenance: Lesly Keller

Source Record ID: 2267 A 842.1

Keyword: AMPFING BARRACKS BUNKS CLOSE-UPS CONCENTRATION CAMPS DACHAU INTERIORS JEWS (HUNGARIAN) JEWS (ROMANIAN) SUB-CAMPS SURVIVORS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau Sub-camps -- Other Dachau Sub-camps -- Ampfing