Medical corpsmen of the Seventh US Army view the bodies in one of the open railcars of the Dachau death train.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 00642

Overview

Caption: Medical corpsmen of the Seventh US Army view the bodies in one of the open railcars of the Dachau death train.

The soldier standing in the rear of the car is Kenneth Dean Johnston.
Date: 1945 April 29 - 1945 May 03
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Arnold Bauer Barach
Event History: The Dachau death train consisted of nearly forty railcars containing the bodies of between 2,000 and 3,000 prisoners who were evacuated from Buchenwald on April 7, 1945. The train arrived in Dachau on the afternoon of April 28.

[Source: "Allemagne, avril-mai 1945: Photographies d'Eric Schwab." Centre historique des Archives nationales, Paris 2003, p. 52.]

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Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Arnold Bauer Barach

Source Record ID: Keystone 65491

Second Record ID: Collections: 1989.27

Keyword: CONCENTRATION CAMPS CORPSES DACHAU DEATH TRAINS DEATH TRAINS (DACHAU) MEDICAL CARE/NURSES/MEDICS SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) TRAINS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau -- LIBERATION -- Victims -- Death Train