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View of the remains of charred bones and wood in the Ohrdruf concentration camp.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 78854
View of the remains of charred bones and wood in the Ohrdruf concentration camp.

View of the remains of charred bones and wood in the Ohrdruf concentration camp.

Photographer
John M. Stix
Date
April 1945
Locale
Ohrdruf, [Thuringia] Germany
Photo Designation
MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Buchenwald Sub-Camps -- Ohrdruf -- LIBERATION -- Victims/Burial/Confrontation
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Judith Saul Stix

About This Photograph

Biography
John Morris Stix was born in St. Louis on November 14, 1920. He studied photography at Black Mountain College and served with the 166th Signal Photo Company. He later got an M.F.A. from Yale and was a theater director and professor of acting at Juilliard. He died October 2, 2004

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Judith Saul Stix
 
Record last modified: 2012-12-18 00:00:00
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