Object numberM2019/025
DescriptionCollection of 18 black and white photos documenting the liberation of Dachau by the American Army. These photos were widely distributed and copied by the Allies as evidence of the Nazi's war crimes.
Dachau Buildings
A - Entrance gates of the Dachau Concentration Camp
B - American soldiers in front of the crematorium in Dachau. The corpses on the left are of SS personnel who were executed by American troops.
Corpses at Dachau
C - Bodies of prisoners outside of the crematorium, with two skulls at front
D - Close up of corpses
E - Pile of corpses behind the crematorium
F - Corpses in one of the open railcars of the Dachau death train
G - Close up of two corpses in the open railcar
H - Dead Dachau Prisoners, naked
I - Corpses at Dachau, American soldiers in background
J - The bodies of SS guards who were executed by U.S. troops.
Demonstrations of torture and cremation process at Dachau
K - A survivor demonstrating a torture method used by the Nazis in the camp, after liberation.
L - Two men demonstrate the cremation process with a corpse
M - Survivors from the camp drag a victim's body, as part of the demonstration of the cremation procedure of Dachau.
N - Survivors demonstrate the movement of the body of a victim into the crematorium oven.
O – Survivors demonstrate the purpose of the crematorium by preparing the corpse to be pushed into the oven.
P – Survivors demonstrate the purpose of the crematorium by pushing the body of the victim into the oven.
First Anniversary of the Liberation of Dachau
Q – Exhibition using mannequins to demonstrate the torture of inmates by their SS guards.
R – Mannequin of a Dachau inmate.
Rachel Falk’s father was survivor of a Nazi concentration camp. After liberation he was given these photos by a fellow survivor who he had met in a German refugee camp, while awaiting approval to immigrate to Australia. Both Rachel’s mother and father’s families had been murdered and they kept the photos as a memorial of those they had lost.
Dachau Buildings
A - Entrance gates of the Dachau Concentration Camp
B - American soldiers in front of the crematorium in Dachau. The corpses on the left are of SS personnel who were executed by American troops.
Corpses at Dachau
C - Bodies of prisoners outside of the crematorium, with two skulls at front
D - Close up of corpses
E - Pile of corpses behind the crematorium
F - Corpses in one of the open railcars of the Dachau death train
G - Close up of two corpses in the open railcar
H - Dead Dachau Prisoners, naked
I - Corpses at Dachau, American soldiers in background
J - The bodies of SS guards who were executed by U.S. troops.
Demonstrations of torture and cremation process at Dachau
K - A survivor demonstrating a torture method used by the Nazis in the camp, after liberation.
L - Two men demonstrate the cremation process with a corpse
M - Survivors from the camp drag a victim's body, as part of the demonstration of the cremation procedure of Dachau.
N - Survivors demonstrate the movement of the body of a victim into the crematorium oven.
O – Survivors demonstrate the purpose of the crematorium by preparing the corpse to be pushed into the oven.
P – Survivors demonstrate the purpose of the crematorium by pushing the body of the victim into the oven.
First Anniversary of the Liberation of Dachau
Q – Exhibition using mannequins to demonstrate the torture of inmates by their SS guards.
R – Mannequin of a Dachau inmate.
Rachel Falk’s father was survivor of a Nazi concentration camp. After liberation he was given these photos by a fellow survivor who he had met in a German refugee camp, while awaiting approval to immigrate to Australia. Both Rachel’s mother and father’s families had been murdered and they kept the photos as a memorial of those they had lost.
Production date 1945 - 1946
Subjectvictims, concentration camps, liberation, torture, death, uniforms, suffering, crematoria
Object namephotographs
Materialpaper
Dimensions
- a-r width: 145.00 mm
a-r height: 91.00 mm
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Rachel Falk