U.S. Army Corporal Larry Matinsk puts cigarettes into the extended hands of newly liberated prisoners behind a stockade in the Allach concentration camp.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 71051

Overview

Caption: U.S. Army Corporal Larry Matinsk puts cigarettes into the extended hands of newly liberated prisoners behind a stockade in the Allach concentration camp.

Cpl Larry Mutinsk served in Company A, 1st Battalion, 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Divison. Also pictured are U.S. Army soldiers Arthur Toratti and George Babel (second and third from the left).

Original caption reads, "Cpl Larry Mutinsk, Philadelphia, PA., hands out his last pack of cigarettes to the eager reaching hands of the prisoners within the wire stockade of the prison camp at Dachau."
Photographer: Arland B. Musser
Date: 1945 April 30
Locale: Allach, [Bavaria; Munich] Germany
Variant Locale: Muenchen-Allach
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 111-SC-207744 (Album 5293)
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Stuart McKeever

Source Record ID: Collections: 1996.A.71

Keyword: ALLACH CONCENTRATION CAMPS DACHAU FENCES GREETING LIBERATORS SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) SUB-CAMPS SURVIVORS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau Sub-camps -- Other Dachau Sub-camps -- Allach