Former prisoners congregate near the entrance to the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 62229

Photographer: Colonel Alexander Zabin
Date: May 1945
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau -- LIBERATION -- Survivors -- General
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Colonel Alexander Zabin

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: CONCENTRATION CAMPS
DACHAU
ENTRANCES
SURVIVORS
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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