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Enfeebled survivors of the Woebbelin concentration camp await transportation to hospitals for medical attention.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 23643

Enfeebled survivors of the Woebbelin concentration camp await transportation to hospitals for medical attention.

Original Caption: "The capture of the town of Wobbelin, Germany, by troops of the 82nd Airborne Division, US Ninth Army, exposed the atrocities perpetrated in the concentration camp there. Here, former prisoners of the camp wait to be taken by truck to hospitals for medical attention. One of them is so weak from malnutrition that he can only stand by making use of his fellow victims as a prop."

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Caption: Enfeebled survivors of the Woebbelin concentration camp await transportation to hospitals for medical attention.

Original Caption: "The capture of the town of Wobbelin, Germany, by troops of the 82nd Airborne Division, US Ninth Army, exposed the atrocities perpetrated in the concentration camp there. Here, former prisoners of the camp wait to be taken by truck to hospitals for medical attention. One of them is so weak from malnutrition that he can only stand by making use of his fellow victims as a prop."
Date: 1945 May 04
Locale: Woebbelin, [Mecklenburg] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Jill Bogard

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Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Jill Bogard

Second Provenance: Solomon Bogard

Source Record ID: ETO-HQ-45-45396

Keywords & Subjects

Keyword: CANES/WALKING STICKS CONCENTRATION CAMPS EVACUATIONS/TRANSPORTS NEUENGAMME SUB-CAMPS SURVIVORS WOEBBELIN
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Neuengamme Sub-camps -- Woebbelin -- LIBERATION -- Survivors/Medical Care -- Evacuation

Administrative Notes

Artifact Photographer: Ralph Forney

Record last modified:: 2011-05-04 00:00:00
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