Survivors of the Hanover concentration camp destroy the barbed wire that had held them captive.
Photograph | Photograph Number: 51041
- Date
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1945 April 10
- Locale
- Hanover, [Prussian Hanover; Lower Saxony] Germany
- Variant Locale
- Hannover
- Photo Designation
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MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Other Neuengamme Sub-camps -- Hanover-Vinnhorst
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Joseph Eaton
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."
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