Jewish prisoners at Buchenwald Concentration Camp
About this photograph
Photograph by Private H. Miller, United States Army, April 16, 1945.
- Date created
- April 16, 1945
- Location
- Buchenwald, Germany
- License
- This work is believed to be in the public domain. Users are advised to make their own copyright assessment and to understand their rights to fair use.
- Source
- Original image housed by National Archives and Records Administration
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Jewish prisoners, used as slave labor during World War II, lie on four-tiered bunks with their food bowls in this photograph taken by Private H. Miller of the United States Army. The prisoners were found sick and starving when they were liberated from Buchenwald concentration camp on April 16, 1945. One of the prisoners is nude and stands with his prison uniform clasped in his hands in front of him. He is extremely emaciated.
