Pile of corpses at Dachau concentraction camp, Germany, 1945
Gift of the Museum of Jewish Heritage
Description:
Photograph. A pile of corpses wrapped in black cloth sitting in the corner of a cement room; blood smears cover the walls and floor. Official caption on front: "Cordwood for human furnace." Dachau concentration camp, Germany. April 1945
Image Information
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Date:
1945-04-
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Collection of United States Army Signal Corps photographs forwarded by the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, New York. The photographs were all taken in the European Theater of Operations and feature American entertainers, European historical sites, urban warfare, and the liberation of concentration camps.
Geography:
Dachau
Latitude:
48.267
Longitude:
11.433
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Holocaust victims--Germany