The body of a former inmate lies in an open railcar in the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 62227

Photographer: Colonel Alexander Zabin
Date: 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 Colonel Alexander Zabin

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.
Biography: Alexander Zabin was an American soldier from Malverne, Long Island, New York, serving with the 4th Auxiliary Surgical Group in the US Third Army when he visited Dachau in mid-May 1945. He had landed in Normandy on the day after D-day and moved with the Third Army through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, and Czechoslovakia.
Keyword: CLOSE-UPS
CONCENTRATION CAMPS
CORPSES
DACHAU
DEATH TRAINS
DEATH TRAINS (DACHAU)
TRAINS
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Colonel Alexander Zabin

Source Record ID: Collections: 2002.189
: Record last modified: 2003-06-05 00:00:00
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