A group of Soviet POWs share rations in the newly liberated Hemer POW camp.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 78231

Overview

Caption: A group of Soviet POWs share rations in the newly liberated Hemer POW camp.

Original caption: "These gaunt-faced Soviets share a 10-in-1 ration supply kit furnished by men of a unit of the 75th Infantry Division, U.S. Ninth Army. Soviet doctors at the camp say many of the inmates will die from malnutrition, tuberculosis, dysentery, and typhus. Approximately 22,000 men were in the camp when it was liberated by the U.S. Army."
Date: 1945 April 29
Locale: Hemer, [Prussian Westphalia; North Rhine-Westphalia] 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: 111-SC-266445 (Album 3214)

Keyword: BARRACKS CONCENTRATION CAMPS EATING/DRINKING FOOD (PREPARATION) HAMMER HEMER INTERIORS POW CAMPS POWS (SOVIET) SURVIVORS
Photo Designation: POWS/POW CAMPS -- Germany -- Hammer (Hemer)