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Partially burned corpses left by the hastily retreating Nazis.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 05568

Partially burned corpses left by the hastily retreating Nazis.

Overview

Caption: Partially burned corpses left by the hastily retreating Nazis.
Photographer: Hitchcock
Date: 1945 April 04
Locale: Ohrdruf, [Thuringia] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Michael Woskowitz

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Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Michael Woskowitz

Source Record ID: Collections: Exh. Loan: Woskowitz, Michael

Keywords & Subjects

Keyword: BUCHENWALD CLOSE-UPS CONCENTRATION CAMPS HUMAN REMAINS OHRDRUF SUB-CAMPS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Buchenwald Sub-Camps -- Ohrdruf -- LIBERATION -- Victims/Burial/Confrontation

Record last modified:: 2013-07-26 00:00:00
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