Survivors gather on the main plaza in the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp for a ceremony to salute American liberators and remember those who perished.
Overview
- Caption
- Survivors gather on the main plaza in the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp for a ceremony to salute American liberators and remember those who perished.
- Photographer
- Colonel Alexander Zabin
- Date
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May 1945
- Locale
- Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Colonel Alexander Zabin
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Colonel Alexander ZabinSource Record ID: Collections: 2002.189
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- 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.
- Record last modified:
- 2003-06-05 00:00:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1144509
