Overview
- Caption
- View of the charred remains of books from libraries in Berlin and Marburg that had been stored in a salt mine near Heimboldshausen, Germany.
According to American military sources, the books were burned in the salt mines by displaced persons. - Date
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1946 April 30
- Locale
- Heimboldshausen, [Hesse] Germany
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Copyright: Public DomainSource Record ID: 111-SC-239299 (Album 5446)
Keywords & Subjects
- Photo Designation
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LIBERATION -- Germany: General -- Miscellaneous
- Record last modified:
- 2004-12-20 00:00:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1086584