An emaciated survivor sits by a portable shower set up by the 30th U.S. Army Field Hospital two days after liberation.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 00621

Overview

Caption: An emaciated survivor sits by a portable shower set up by the 30th U.S. Army Field Hospital two days after liberation.

He had been in the hospital barracks 2 (for Jews) in Ebensee, a sub-camp of Mauthausen, which was liberated by a unit of the 3rd Cavalry Recon. Sqd., U.S. Third Army, on 6 May 1945.
Date: 1945 May 08 - 1945 May 15
Locale: Ebensee, Austria
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Fred Anderson

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Fred Anderson

Keyword: BATHING/SHOWERS/WASHROOMS CONCENTRATION CAMPS EBENSEE JEWS MAUTHAUSEN SUB-CAMPS SURVIVORS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Mauthausen Sub-Camps -- Ebensee -- LIBERATION -- Survivors/Medical Care -- General