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Corpses at Buchenwald concentration camp photographed very shortly after liberation.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 35541
Corpses at Buchenwald concentration camp photographed very shortly after liberation.

Corpses at Buchenwald concentration camp photographed very shortly after liberation.

Photographer
Milton Shurr
Date
April 1945 - July 1945
Locale
Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Photo Designation
MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Buchenwald -- LIBERATION -- Victims (The Dead) -- General
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Milton Shurr

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Biography
Milton Shurr worked with the military in the Department of Civilian Affairs. He first was stationed with the 1st Army shortly after the invasion of Normandy. In October of 1944 he was placed with the 1st Army Displaced Persons Team. When it was discovered he had hepatitis, he was sent to England. The day after Patton's 3rd Army captured Buchenwald, Shurr returned to his unit, which had just been assigned to Buchenwald.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Milton Shurr
Source Record ID: Collections: 1998.112.9
 
Record last modified: 2015-04-28 00:00:00
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