Survivors of the Hanover concentration camp destroy the barbed wire that had held them captive.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 51041

Overview

Caption: Survivors of the Hanover concentration camp destroy the barbed wire that had held them captive.

Original caption reads; "Former Jewish and Polish prisoners of the Nazis laugh at the barbed wire which for years held them captive at the Nazi Hanover-Harlen concentration camp near Hanover, Germany, captured by troops of the Ninth U.S. Army April 10, 1945. Hanover is 155 miles from Berlin."
Date: 1945 April 10
Locale: Hanover, [Prussian Hanover; Lower Saxony] Germany
Variant Locale: Hannover
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Joseph Eaton

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Joseph Eaton

Keyword: CONCENTRATION CAMPS GROUP PORTRAITS HANOVER PRISONERS SURVIVORS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Other Neuengamme Sub-camps -- Hanover-Vinnhorst