Ohrdruf liberation photograph
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
George H. Rappole donated this photograph to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives on Apr. 8, 2003. His late wife was given the photograph in 1945.
Scope and Content
Photograph taken at Ohrdruf concentration camp in 1945. Photograph shows four men with arms raised surrounded by United States Army soldiers. In the foreground is a pile of charred wood and what appears to be skulls. One camp inmate is shown talking to the soldiers on the left-hand side of the photograph. In script on the back of the photograph: "Ordroff [sic] Concentration Camp 30 min. after capture."
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Photograph.
- Document
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