Transportation of corpses from Dachau concentraction camp, Germany, 1945

Gift of the Museum of Jewish Heritage
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Photograph. Prisoners in striped uniforms carry an emaciated man on a stretcher; a cart with a pile of corpses is next to them; men in various prison uniforms walk in the background. 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.
Geography: 
Dachau
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48.267
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11.433
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Holocaust survivors--Germany
Holocaust victims--Germany
Starvation--Germany