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Photograph by Sam Gilbert.
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Lt. Col. J.W. Branch, Chief Surgeon of the 6th Armored Division, 3rd U.S. Army, dresses body sores of a Hungarian woman survivor in Penig, a sub-camp of Buchenwald. Upon the approach of American troops, SS guards evacuated all those prisoners who could still walk and left behind those too ill to move. Women in the camp suffered from starvation, typhus, diptheria, and tuberculosis.
Depicted place Penig, [Saxony] Germany
Date Apr 26, 1945.
institution QS:P195,Q238990
Credit line courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park.
Source United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Photograph #04445

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