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German women are forced to participate in the burial of the victims of the atrocities committed at the Woebbelin concentration camp.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 51756

German women are forced to participate in the burial of the victims of the atrocities committed at the Woebbelin concentration camp.

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Caption: German women are forced to participate in the burial of the victims of the atrocities committed at the Woebbelin concentration camp.
Date: May 1945
Locale: Ludwigslust, [Mecklenburg] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Laszlo Berkowits

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Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Laszlo Berkowits

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Keyword: BURIAL CEMETERIES CONCENTRATION CAMPS FORCED CONFRONTATION GERMANS WOEBBELIN WOMEN
Photo Designation: LIBERATION -- Germany: Atrocities/Death March Victims -- Woebbelin/Ludwigslust/Schwerin

Record last modified:: 2011-03-09 00:00:00
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