Survivors lie in multi-tiered bunks in the infirmary barracks of the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 00652

Overview

Caption: Survivors lie in multi-tiered bunks in the infirmary barracks of the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp.

The original caption reads, "Intolerable filth surrounds patients in 'hospital' at Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany. Disease, malnutrition above all, plus incessant torture, resulted in approximately 20 deaths a day."
Photographer: Rex L. Daveley
Date: 1945 April 16
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of David Wherry

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: David Wherry

Source Record ID: U.S. Army Signal Corps Photograph
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Copyright: Agency Agreement

Source Record ID: Germany 1933-45: Buchenwald 118

Keyword: BARRACKS BUCHENWALD BUNKS CONCENTRATION CAMPS HOSPITALS/INFIRMARIES/CLINICS INTERIORS SURVIVORS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Buchenwald -- LIBERATION -- Survivors -- Inside Barracks