Newly liberated prisoners stand around a mass grave at Dachau concentration camp.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 49663

Overview

Caption: Newly liberated prisoners stand around a mass grave at Dachau concentration camp.

Original caption reads, "The prisoners show where they buried some of the comrades everyday, the ones who could not withstand the cruel treatment and starvation diet handed out by their German keepers. Feet and partially covered head protrude from under the dirt in this mass burial pit."
Photographer: Arland B. Musser
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: BURIAL CONCENTRATION CAMPS CORPSES DACHAU GROUP PORTRAITS LIBERATION DAY MASS GRAVES PRISONERS SURVIVORS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau -- LIBERATION -- Victims -- Victims/Burial/Confrontation