Object numberM1995/070:048
DescriptionBlack and white press photographs documenting the holocaust. Typed caption attached to back reads: "U.S. Official Photo EA 62970 Distributed through O.W.I. - THE HORROR OF BUCHENWALD - Photo shows: - German civilians of Weimar are brought to see the horrors of the Buchenwald concentration camp, where their own fathers and brothers carried out the most brutal, cruel and sadistic massacres of all time upon helpless and innocent, victims. A truckload of fleshless corpses is shown to the Germans. Many thousands of non-combatants were killed at this terrible camp, and scores of other camps have been taken, with the same evidence of wickedness and perversion. Planet April 20 1945 PN"
Production placeBuchenwald concentration camp
Production date 1945-04-20
Subjectnazi cruelty, liberation, corpses
Object namephotographs
Dimensions
- length: 153.00 mm
height: 97.00 m
Language
- English
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Michele Harrison