The bodies of former prisoners are piled outside the crematorium at the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 85124

Overview

Caption: The bodies of former prisoners are piled outside the crematorium at the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp.
Date: 1945 May 04
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Milton F. Gowen
Event History: These photographs, including posed reenactment photographs in the crematorium, were taken by a committee of former Yugoslav prisoners for their records and then widely distributed to American soldiers. [source: photo caption by American liberator, Staff Sergeant Frank Magid]

See https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005214.
See Also "Dachau Main Camp" in Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, Volume 1, Part A.
See Also https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005131.

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Milton F. Gowen
Muzeum Niepodleglosci

Copyright: Public Domain

Keyword: CLOSE-UPS CONCENTRATION CAMPS CORPSES DACHAU SKULLS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau -- LIBERATION -- Victims -- Victims/Burial/Confrontation