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

Photograph | Photograph Number: 00621
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.

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 Designation
MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Mauthausen Sub-Camps -- Ebensee -- LIBERATION -- Survivors/Medical Care -- General
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Fred Anderson

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Fred Anderson
 
Record last modified: 2015-04-15 00:00:00
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