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Ohrdruf survivors reenact torture scenes while an American soldier looks on.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 62783
Ohrdruf survivors reenact torture scenes while an American soldier looks on. The caption shows, "the whipping device where a person was held and beat over the back with small timber."

Ohrdruf survivors reenact torture scenes while an American soldier looks on.

The caption shows, "the whipping device where a person was held and beat over the back with small timber."

Date
1945 April 15
Locale
Ohrdruf, [Thuringia] Germany
Photo Designation
MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Buchenwald Sub-Camps -- Ohrdruf -- LIBERATION -- Inspection/Investigation
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Lee T. Stinchfield

About This Photograph

Biography
Colonel Frank E Stinchfield, MD served as a physician in the liberating forces medical team stationed at Buchenwald.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Lee T. Stinchfield
 
Record last modified: 2008-12-24 00:00:00
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