The U.S. Troops serve soup to the liberated Jewish and Polish prisoners of the Hanover-Ahlem concentration camp.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 78918

Overview

Caption: The U.S. Troops serve soup to the liberated Jewish and Polish prisoners of the Hanover-Ahlem concentration camp.

Original caption reads: "U.S. Troops liberate prisoners of Nazis. Liberated Jewish and Polish prisoners are served plates of nourishing soup at the former Nazi Hanover-Harlen concentration camp near Hanover, Germany, following capture of the city by troops of the Ninth U.S. Army, April 10, 1945. Hanover is 155 miles west of Berlin".
Date: 1945 April 10
Locale: Hanover-Ahlem, [Prussian Hanover; Lower Saxony] Germany
Variant Locale: Hannover-Ahlem
Ahlem
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Ron Leidelmeyer

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Ron Leidelmeyer

Source Record ID: Collections: 2013.466

Keyword: CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOOD (DISTRIBUTION) HANOVER-AHLEM NEUENGAMME QUEUES SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) SUB-CAMPS SURVIVORS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Other Neuengamme Sub-camps -- Hanover-Vinnhorst