The bodies of prisoners who were murdered by the SS just before the evacuation, are strewn on the grounds of the newly liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 11666B

Overview

Caption: The bodies of prisoners who were murdered by the SS just before the evacuation, are strewn on the grounds of the newly liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp.
Photographer: William Newhouse
Date: 1945 April 04 - 1945 April 10
Locale: Ohrdruf, [Thuringia] Germany
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: 153-Case files 1944-49--box 273--file 12-468
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Arnold Bauer Barach

Source Record ID: Collections: 1989.27
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Nancy & Michael Krzyzanowski

Keyword: BUCHENWALD CLOSE-UPS CORPSES OHRDRUF SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) SUB-CAMPS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Buchenwald Sub-Camps -- Ohrdruf -- LIBERATION -- Victims/Burial/Confrontation