Remains of deceased prisoners found in the barracks of the Dachau concentration camp after liberation.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 49661

Overview

Caption: Remains of deceased prisoners found in the barracks of the Dachau concentration camp after liberation.

Original caption reads, "The dead of the Dachau concentration camp lie in the back of the prison barracks. Each barrack has their little pile of dead bodies. Inmates claim that 14,000 prisoners have died in the past few months."
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: ATROCITIES BARRACKS CONCENTRATION CAMPS CORPSES DACHAU FENCES LIBERATION DAY PRISONERS VIEWS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau -- LIBERATION -- Victims -- Victims/Burial/Confrontation