Cheering survivors greet American troops as the first Allied tanks enter the Mauthausen concentration camp.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 74460

Overview

Caption: Cheering survivors greet American troops as the first Allied tanks enter the Mauthausen concentration camp.

According to P. Serge Choumoff, an historian and survivor of Mauthausen, this event was a recreation of the liberation (one day later) done at the request of General Eisenhower.
Date: 1945 May 07
Locale: Mauthausen, [Upper Austria] Austria
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Col. P. Richard Seibel

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Col. P. Richard Seibel
Archiv der KZ-Gedenkstaette Mauthausen

Copyright: Public Domain

Provenance: Amicale, France

Second Provenance: Col. P. Richard Seibel

Source Record ID: U/15/09

Second Record ID: U/15/16/28

Keyword: CONCENTRATION CAMPS GREETING LIBERATORS MAUTHAUSEN MILITARY VEHICLES SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) SURVIVORS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Mauthausen -- LIBERATION (May 5, 1945) -- Liberators/Greeting Liberators