"They had been dead about a week. You can imagine how they smelled." [Ohrdruf]
Dublin Core
Title
"They had been dead about a week. You can imagine how they smelled." [Ohrdruf]
Creator
Mercer, Fred (Donor)
Mercer, Fred (Photographer)
Description
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Naked, emaciated corpses of prisoners piled in a hut and covered with lime. Numbered 120 on the reverse.
Identifier
06080100PHOR00MERCFR025
06080100PHOR00MERCFR025.JPG
Subject
Ohrdruf (Concentration camp)
Mercer, Fred
Source
1 silver gelatin print Image size: 6 1/2" x 4 1/2"; Paper size: 7" x 5" bent, cracked, stained, scratches, damage on negative, moisture wrinkling. Reverse of photo: paper label, writing.
Date
1 - 1 - 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); 63 KB Digital image created as part of SAGE project, 1998.
Files
Collection
Citation
Mercer, Fred (Donor) and Mercer, Fred (Photographer), “"They had been dead about a week. You can imagine how they smelled." [Ohrdruf],” Witness to the Holocaust, accessed November 25, 2024, https://witness.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/items/show/696.