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Trapdoor inside the crematorium at Buchenwald concentration camp.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 48908
Trapdoor inside the crematorium at Buchenwald concentration camp. Original Caption Reads: "Trap door to basement of crematorium through which victims were thrown. In basement, they were hung by chin and they would dip slowly. When dead, ... took them up to furnace where they were burned."

Trapdoor inside the crematorium at Buchenwald concentration camp.

Original Caption Reads: "Trap door to basement of crematorium through which victims were thrown. In basement, they were hung by chin and they would dip slowly. When dead, ... took them up to furnace where they were burned."

Photographer
Arnold Rennert
Date
1945 June 06
Locale
Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Photo Designation
MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Buchenwald -- LIBERATION -- Crematoria/Gas Chambers/Human Remains
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Richard L. Rennert

About This Photograph

Biography
Cpl. Arnold Rennert (the father of the donor, 9/15/1916-1/29/2004) served in the 7th Corps, 18th Field Artillery Battalion, 1st Army.

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Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Richard L. Rennert
 
Record last modified: 2009-04-08 00:00:00
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