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

Photograph | Photograph Number: 24542

Date: 1945 April 29 - May 1945
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau -- LIBERATION -- Victims -- Death Train
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of M. Hershenson

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)
TRAINS
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: M. Hershenson
: Record last modified: 2003-05-30 00:00:00
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