Concentration Camps: Ebensee Photographs
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A Crematoria Oven at Ebensee (May 6-30, 1945) -
A survivor from Ebensee is loaded onto an ambulance to be taken to the 139th Evacuation Hospital by German personnel -
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Sgt. Paul Lipman giving cigarette to liberated prisoner (photographer unknown) -
Dying Ebensee prisoner on stretcher -
Liberated Ebensee prisoners waiting to get on the bus to leave camp -
Liberated Ebensee prisoners waiting to get on the bus to leave camp -
Ebensee crematorium with bones still in the oven -
American soldier next to sign in German at Ebensee -
Survivors sit on the floor in the infirmary barracks for Jewish prisoners in the Ebensee concentration camp. -
Ebensee survivors cook a meal over an open fire -
Survivors at Ebensee drink soup that was prepared for them by U.S. Army soldiers -
Survivors of Ebensee are evacuated to the 139th Evacuation Hospital for medical care/span> -
Former prisoners of Ebensee sit on benches surrounding the area where roll call was conducted -
Survivors congregate in the former roll call area of the Ebensee concentration camp. -
Ebensee survivors mill around the former roll call area. The snow-capped peaks of the Alps Mountains loom in the distance. -
Survivors wave to American liberators from their bunks in the infirmary barracks for Jewish prisoners in the Ebensee concentration camp. -
An emaciated Hungarian Jewish survivor sits on a stool in the infirmary barracks for Jewish prisoners in the Ebensee concentration camp. -
Emaciated survivors sit in bunks in one of the infirmary barracks in the Ebensee concentration camp. -
Former prisoners of Ebensee freed by the U.S. Third Army leave the camp under the sign “We Welcome Our Liberators” -
Survivors in Ebensee hospital barracks 2 (for Jews) after liberation. The young man second from the right in the front row is 16 year-old George Havas -
Survivors from Ebensee pose for a group portrait after showering in portable shower units installed by personnel from the 30th U.S. Army Field Hospital -
Ebensee survivors rummage through piles of clothing. -
Starved Survivors in Ebensee -
Survivors in the Ebensee infirmary for Jews. The people who could not fit into the bunks were forced to sleep on the floor. -
Survivors at Ebensee, too weak to eat solid food, suck on sugar cubes for strength -
Ebensee survivors gather outside on the day of liberation. The survivor at center-left holding his metal name tag is Joachim Friedner, a twenty-one year-old Polish Jew from Kraków. -
Survivors look out from the upper tier of a bunk in the infirmary barracks for Jewish prisoners in the Ebensee concentration camp. -
Ebensee survivors prepare a meal over an open flame. The man second from left is Josef Szuyt, the former clerk of barracks 16. -
Survivors in Ebensee wrap themselves in blankets. The man in the foreground is Mr. Faiwl, originally from Kalisz, Poland, imprisoned in Warsaw ghetto, Czestochowa ghetto - Hassak labor camp, Bedzin ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Swietochowice and Ebensee, where he was liberated by the U.S. Army. -
Survivors at Ebensee in hospital barracks #2 for Jews -
Four starved survivors at Ebensee sit in a bunk originally intended for one, while many of the sick lay on the floor -
Survivors of Ebensee rest outside tents set up by the U.S. Army 30th Field Hospital
Sources: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Mitchell Bard from Mauthausen museum, Barry Lippa,
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