Funerary urns stacked against a wooden fence at Buchenwald.

Photograph | Not Digitized | Photograph Number: 85473

Overview

Caption: Funerary urns stacked against a wooden fence at Buchenwald.

The urns were supplied by Topf & Sons company of Erfurt, and used by the Nazis to keep up a pretense of proper handling of the remains of victims.

The inscription on the back of the photograph reads, "Jars for Ashes Buchenwald."

Source: https://www.buchenwald.de/en/1268/
Date: 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Ralph McComb, Estate

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Ralph McComb, Estate

Second Provenance: Mary McComb

Source Record ID: Collections: IRN 543022

Second Record ID: Collections: 2016.262.1

Keyword: BUCHENWALD CONCENTRATION CAMPS FENCES URNS VIEWS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Buchenwald -- LIBERATION -- Artifacts/Prisoners' Property