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Trapdoor inside the crematorium at Buchenwald concentration camp.

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    Trapdoor inside the crematorium at Buchenwald concentration camp.
    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."

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    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 Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Richard L. Rennert

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    Photo Source
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Richard L. Rennert

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    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.
    Record last modified:
    2009-04-08 00:00:00
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