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Survivors wearing blankets for warmth crowd together behind a barbed wire fence shortly after liberation.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 71954

Survivors wearing blankets for warmth crowd together behind a barbed wire fence shortly after liberation.

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Caption: Survivors wearing blankets for warmth crowd together behind a barbed wire fence shortly after liberation.
Date: 1945 April 29 - 1945 May 02
Locale: Landsberg, [Bavaria] Germany ?
Variant Locale: Landsberg Am Lech
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Albright College

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Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Albright College

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Keyword: BLANKETS CONCENTRATION CAMPS CROWDS DACHAU FENCES LANDSBERG SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) SUB-CAMPS SURVIVORS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau Sub-camps -- Kaufering (Lager I, Landsberg)

Record last modified:: 2011-08-22 00:00:00
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