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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.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 62256
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.

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
May 1945
Locale
Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Designation
MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau -- LIBERATION -- Liberators/Greeting Liberators/Celebrations
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Colonel Alexander Zabin

About This Photograph

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.

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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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