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A man walks down a muddy street of an unidentified town under German occupation.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 18586
A man walks down a muddy street of an unidentified town under German occupation. The caption of the SS-Archiv says Haupteinfahrtstrasse nach der Stadt (...) Okt. 1941" (main entrance street to the city (...) Oct. 1941).

A man walks down a muddy street of an unidentified town under German occupation.

The caption of the SS-Archiv says Haupteinfahrtstrasse nach der Stadt (...) Okt. 1941" (main entrance street to the city (...) Oct. 1941).

Date
October 1941
Locale
Poland
Photo Designation
GHETTOS (UNIDENTIFIED) -- Daily Life/Portraits/Street Scenes
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Philip Drell

About This Photograph

Event History
The photograph is taken from a photo album of SS officer Max Schmidt. It was found in the SS compound near Dachau by American army photographer Philip Drell after the American liberation of the camp. Drell observed a procession of wagons leaving the camp carrying bodies for burial going down a street called SS Strasse. He followed the wagons and noticed that on that street there were very handsome apartment buildings. In order not to sleep in Dachau at night he took over an apartment which had been occupied by Max Schmidt and discovered the album and other abandoned artifacts there.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Philip Drell
 
Record last modified: 2006-07-10 00:00:00
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