Representative John Vorys inspects one of the rooms filled with bodies at the Dachau concentration camp

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Title

Representative John Vorys inspects one of the rooms filled with bodies at the Dachau concentration camp

Creator

Izac, Edouard Victor Michel (Donor)

Description

Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Rep. John Vorys (R), a member of the congressional group investigating German POW atrocities, as he inspects one of the rooms filled with bodies. Maj. Gen. Persons (L) is conducting the congressmen on their tour of German POW camps. This is the infamous POW camp at Dachau, Germany." Vorys and Persons stand at the entrance to a room filled with corpses of prisoners. They are facing the camera. Numbered 54 on the reverse; (Izac 59).

Identifier

06080100PHDA00IZACED001
06080100PHDA00IZACED001.JPG

Subject

Dachau (Concentration camp)
United States--Congress--Joint Committee on Conditions in Concentration Camps in Germany
Vorys, John M.
Persons, Wilton B.
Izac, Edouard Victor Michel

Source

1 silver gelatin print Image size: 6 1/2" x 4 1/2"; Paper size: 7 1/8" x 4 15/16" bent, cracked, scratches, fingerprints, impression from writing on reverse of photo, damage on negative, moisture wrinkling. Reverse of photo: paper label, writing.

Date

5 - 3 - 1945

Contributor

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.
Funding for the SAGE Digital Archive Project was provided by a local foundation.

Rights

Researchers should contact the repository for terms governing the use of the collection.

Relation

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

Format

JPG (72 dpi); 84 KB Digital image created as part of SAGE project, 1998.

Files

06080100PHDA00IZACED001.JPG

Collection

Citation

Izac, Edouard Victor Michel (Donor), “Representative John Vorys inspects one of the rooms filled with bodies at the Dachau concentration camp,” Witness to the Holocaust, accessed March 29, 2024, https://witness.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/items/show/484.

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