Overview
- Date
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April 1945 - May 1945
- Locale
- Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of County of Allegheny, Division of Photography
- 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.
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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County of Allegheny, Division of Photography
Copyright: Public DomainSource Record ID: 198772
Keywords & Subjects
- Record last modified:
- 2005-06-10 00:00:00
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