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The bodies of prisoners lie stacked in a shed in the Ohrdruf concentration camp.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 63512

The bodies of prisoners lie stacked in a shed in the Ohrdruf concentration camp.

Overview

Caption: The bodies of prisoners lie stacked in a shed in the Ohrdruf concentration camp.
Photographer: Walter E. Cummings
Date: 1945 April 06
Locale: Ohrdruf, [Thuringia] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 153-Case files 1944-49--box 273--file 12-468

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

Record last modified:: 2006-02-02 00:00:00
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