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Corpses are exhumed for reburial from a mass grave in either the Buchenwald or Woebbelin concentration camp.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 60967

Corpses are exhumed for reburial from a mass grave in either the Buchenwald or Woebbelin concentration camp.

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Caption: Corpses are exhumed for reburial from a mass grave in either the Buchenwald or Woebbelin concentration camp.
Date: 1945 April 11
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany ?
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Dr. Errol Rohr

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Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Dr. Errol Rohr

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Keyword: BUCHENWALD CONCENTRATION CAMPS CORPSES EXHUMATION/REBURIAL MASS GRAVES WOEBBELIN
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Buchenwald -- LIBERATION -- Victims (The Dead) -- Clearing Corpses

Record last modified:: 2015-04-13 00:00:00
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