Номер объектаM2013/027:009
СоздательBritish War Office
ОписаниеThis image depicts a large room of clothed women, with the majority of them appearing to be overwhelmed with emotion and malnourished. These women were prisoners of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp shortly after being liberated. Surrounding the women are blankets, jackets and other items of clothing that are hung on the walls around them. Some of the women featured have their hair covered with a scarf; some are wearing shoes, with the women in the left-hand corner her shoes appear to be ill-fitting, while others are barefoot. The caption on the back appears to be mistaken as it states that the picture shows “A common sight in the camp where bodies of dead and dying are strewn everywhere”.
There is a carbon-copy caption attached on to the back of the image which reads:
“British Official Photograph No. BU 3733 WB.
(War Office Photo – Crown Copyright Reserved)
BELSEN HORROR CAMP.
During the advance of the 2nd Army the huge concentration camp at Belsen, was relieved. Some 80,000 civilians mostly suffering from Typhus, Typhoid and Dysentery are dying in their hundreds daily, despite the frantic efforts being made by medical services rushed to the camp.
The camp was declared a neutral area before we arrived and the Allied Military Government stood by to reach the camp at the earliest possible moment, to be faced by the most indescribable scenes of 60,000 people starving and without water for over six days. The camps were littered with dead and dying and on closer investigation it was discovered that the huts capable of housing about 30 people in many cases were holding as many as 500, it was impossible to estimate the number of the dead among them, the others were too weak to remove the bodies so they just had to remain. In many cases they had died by suffocation, being too weak to move. Despite all this horror S.S. guards still remained in command of the camp, including the Commandant and now the S.S. men.
The super-men as they call themselves are being made to cart and bury in their thousands, the unfortunate civilians who had been slowly tortured to death. In most cases their only crime being that they were born Jews.
There is a carbon-copy caption attached on to the back of the image which reads:
“British Official Photograph No. BU 3733 WB.
(War Office Photo – Crown Copyright Reserved)
BELSEN HORROR CAMP.
During the advance of the 2nd Army the huge concentration camp at Belsen, was relieved. Some 80,000 civilians mostly suffering from Typhus, Typhoid and Dysentery are dying in their hundreds daily, despite the frantic efforts being made by medical services rushed to the camp.
The camp was declared a neutral area before we arrived and the Allied Military Government stood by to reach the camp at the earliest possible moment, to be faced by the most indescribable scenes of 60,000 people starving and without water for over six days. The camps were littered with dead and dying and on closer investigation it was discovered that the huts capable of housing about 30 people in many cases were holding as many as 500, it was impossible to estimate the number of the dead among them, the others were too weak to remove the bodies so they just had to remain. In many cases they had died by suffocation, being too weak to move. Despite all this horror S.S. guards still remained in command of the camp, including the Commandant and now the S.S. men.
The super-men as they call themselves are being made to cart and bury in their thousands, the unfortunate civilians who had been slowly tortured to death. In most cases their only crime being that they were born Jews.
Место изготовленияBergen-Belsen concentration camp
Дата circa 1945-04
ТемаHolocaust, concentration camps, nazi cruelty, liberation, victims, death, malnutrition, survivors
Наименованиеphotographs
Материалpaper
Размерность
- width: 152.00 mm
height: 99.00 mm
Язык
- English
Кредитная линияSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mr Timothy Ring