Pile of corpses at Dachau concentraction camp, Germany, 1945

Gift of the Museum of Jewish Heritage
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Photograph. Close up of the faces of several dead prisoners, their bodies have been placed in a pile; a pool of blood is underneath the corpses. Official caption on front: "Common Grave, Dachau." Dachau concentration camp, Germany. April 1945

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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.
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Dachau
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48.267
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11.433
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Holocaust victims--Germany