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Survivors of the Dachau concentration camp demonstrate the operation of the crematorium by pushing a corpse into one of the ovens.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 15026
Survivors of the Dachau concentration camp demonstrate the operation of the crematorium by pushing a corpse into one of the ovens.

Survivors of the Dachau concentration camp demonstrate the operation of the crematorium by pushing a corpse into one of the ovens.

Date
1945 May 04
Locale
Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Designation
MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau -- LIBERATION -- Crematoria/Gas Chambers/Human Remains
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of R. Harrison

About This Photograph

Event History
These photographs, including posed reenactment photographs in the crematorium, were taken by a committee of former Yugoslav prisoners for their records and then widely distributed to American soldiers. [source: photo caption by American liberator, Staff Sergeant Frank Magid]

See https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005214.
See Also "Dachau Main Camp" in Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, Volume 1, Part A.
See Also https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005131.

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Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: R. Harrison
Zydowski Instytut Historyczny imienia Emanuela Ringelbluma
Copyright: Agency Agreement
Source Record ID: 2314
Muzej Revolucije Narodnosti Jugoslavije
Copyright: Public Domain
Source Record ID: E-41/40
 
Record last modified: 2021-05-06 00:00:00
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