Pile of prisoners clothing found near the crematorium in the Dachau concentration camp.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 49659

Overview

Caption: Pile of prisoners clothing found near the crematorium in the Dachau concentration camp.

Original caption reads, "Dachau Atrocity Camp: Tattered clothes from prisoners who were forced to strip before they were killed, lay in huge piles in the infamous Dachau concentration camp which was liberated by the 7th U.S. Army troops. Clothing was reused because of material shortages."
Photographer: Sidney Blau
Date: 1945 April 30
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Stuart McKeever

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Stuart McKeever

Source Record ID: Collections: 1996.A.71

Keyword: CLOTHING CONCENTRATION CAMPS DACHAU LIBERATION DAY
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau -- LIBERATION -- Artifacts/Prisoners' Property