"Bodies awaiting burial" [Nordhausen]

"Bodies awaiting burial" [Nordhausen]

Izac, Edouard Victor Michel (Donor)

United States--Army--Signal Corps (Photographer)

Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Additional caption text: "German civilians were drafted to help in removing and burying the dead." Two long, parallel trenches with the corpses of prisoners laid side-by-side down their length. Between the trenches is a wide walkway. The dirt removed has been piled on the far side of the trenches. Several buildings are visible in the background. Numbered 12 on the reverse (Izac 38)

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Nordhausen (Concentration camp)

Dora (Concentration camp)

United States--Army--Signal Corps

Izac, Edouard Victor Michel

1 silver gelatin print Image size: 4 1/2" x 6 1/2"; Paper size: 5" x 6 3/4" bent, cracked, scratches. Reverse of photo: paper label, writing.

4 - 13 - 1945

Emory University

Encoded as part of the SAGE Digital Archive Project: A Collaborative Project between the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, 1997-2000.

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Negative. TIFF image (400 dpi). JPG image (72 dpi).

JPG (72 dpi); 49 KB Digital image created as part of SAGE project, 1998.