The corpse of a prisoner which fell out of one of the railcars of the Dachau death train when American troops opened the door.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 78652

Overview

Caption: The corpse of a prisoner which fell out of one of the railcars of the Dachau death train when American troops opened the door.
Photographer: Gordon Vincent Graystone
Date: 1945 April 29
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Loeser, Ronald
Event History: The Dachau death train consisted of nearly forty railcars containing the bodies of between 2,000 and 3,000 prisoners who were evacuated from Buchenwald on April 7, 1945. The train arrived in Dachau on the afternoon of April 28.

[Source: "Allemagne, avril-mai 1945: Photographies d'Eric Schwab." Centre historique des Archives nationales, Paris 2003, p. 52.]

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Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Loeser, Ronald

Source Record ID: Collections: 1989.180.6
Comite International de la Croix Rouge

Copyright: Exclusively with source

Source Record ID: 1156/02

Keyword: CONCENTRATION CAMPS CORPSES DACHAU DEATH TRAINS DEATH TRAINS (DACHAU) TRAIN TRACKS TRAINS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau -- LIBERATION -- Victims -- Death Train