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Corpses are piled on a wagon in the Gusen concentration camp.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 60749

Corpses are piled on a wagon in the Gusen concentration camp.

Overview

Caption: Corpses are piled on a wagon in the Gusen concentration camp.
Date: 1945 May 11
Locale: Steyr, [Upper Austria] Austria
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Joseph & Rachel Greenfield

Rights & Restrictions

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Joseph & Rachel Greenfield

Source Record ID: Collections: RG-19.059

Second Record ID: Collections: 1999.A.0029

Keywords & Subjects

Keyword: BARRACKS CARTS/WAGONS CONCENTRATION CAMPS CORPSES GUSEN MAUTHAUSEN PHYSICIANS SUB-CAMPS SURVIVORS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Mauthausen Sub-Camps -- Gusen -- LIBERATION -- Victims/Burial/Confrontation

Administrative Notes

Biography: Josef and Rachel (Bunis) Gruenfeld (later Greenfield). Josef was born on February 13, 1919 in Dabie, Poland. After surviving several concentration camps, including Mauthausen, he worked for the 331st U.S. Infantry Division performing various tasks, among them photography. In 1946, Gruenfeld met and married Rachel Bunis (b. Kowal, Poland) in the Braunau displaced persons' camp. Josef took extensive photographs in Braunau, Ebelsberg, Ranshofen, Steyr, Bindermichl, and Muenichholtz before immigrating to the United States in February 1949. Their son David Schlama Greenfield was born February 3, 1947 in the Braunau displaced persons camp.

Record last modified:: 2009-05-19 00:00:00
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