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Three corpses are lined up on the straw covered ground of the Woebbelin concentration camp.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 81694

Three corpses are lined up on the straw covered ground of the Woebbelin concentration camp.

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Caption: Three corpses are lined up on the straw covered ground of the Woebbelin concentration camp.
Date: May 1945
Locale: Woebbelin, [Mecklenburg] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Kenneth E. Legge, Estate

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Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Kenneth E. Legge, Estate

Second Provenance: John & Ruth Legge

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Keyword: CONCENTRATION CAMPS CORPSES NEUENGAMME SUB-CAMPS WOEBBELIN
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Neuengamme Sub-camps -- Woebbelin -- LIBERATION -- Victims/Burial/Confrontation

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