Penig Concentration Camp
Penig Concentration Camp Three of the 600 Jewish women from Hungary who worked in an airplane parts factory near Penig, a sub-camp of Buchenwald. SS guards evacuated all those prisoners who could still walk upon the approach of the 6th U.S. Armored Division, leaving behind those too ill to move. Women in the camp suffered from starvation, typhus, diphtheria, and tuberculosis. Germany. Date: April 12, 1945
Picture No
12000315
Media ID
45116406
Size
4399px x 4725px
(12.8MB)
Credit
© The Bilderwelt Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
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Source
Photograph from the Bilderwelt Collection
Date
1945
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Approach Buchenwald Diphtheria Evacuated Forced Starvation Suffered Tuberculosis Typhus
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