Object numberM1995/070:027
DescriptionBlack and white press photographs documenting the holocaust. Shows a pile of dead bodies, text attach to back, typed in English - " ANOTHER NAZI HORROR CAMP UNCOVERED. General Patch's 12th armoured division, forging their way towards the Austrian border, uncovered another Nazi horror camp at Schwabmuchen, southwest of Munich. Over 4000 slave labourers - all Jews of various nationalities, were housed in the prison. As spearheads of the 7th US army threatened the camp, the German guards found they could not evacuate the prisoners, before the arrival of the Americans. Rather than allow the internees to be liberated the guards set fire to the crude huts in which the prisoners slept - burning them to death and shooting any who tried to escape."
Production placeSchwabmuchen, Germany
Subjectnazi cruelty, slave labour
Object namephotographs
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Michele Harrison