Liberators supervise townspeople burying corpses of prisoners [Bergen-Belsen]

Liberators supervise townspeople burying corpses of prisoners [Bergen-Belsen]

Anonymous (Griffin, GA) (Donor)

Content Note: Corpses are laid in a deep trench. Some are clothed, all are emaciated. A group of 4 townspeople lower another corpse into place. Liberators stand along the side of the trench. Numbered 5 on the reverse.

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Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)

Anonymous (Griffin, GA)

1 silver gelatin print mage size: 6 7/16" x 4 1/8"; Paper size: 6 7/8" x 5" bent, cracked, scratched, fingerprints, puncture to lower left of center, push pin/ thumbtack holes in both upper corners and the lower right corner of the edge of the image, damage on the negative. Reverse of photo: slight age discoloration, glue residue with black paper fibers imbedded, paper label glued on.

- - 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.

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

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Negative. TIFF

JPG (72 dpi); 66 KB Digital image created as part of SAGE project, 1998.