Title from caption on object: “Bodies of Slave Laborers Await Burial at German Camp”

April 12, 1945

John Florea

Artist, American, 1916 - 2000

Associated Press

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 28.2 × 29.3 cm (11 1/8 × 11 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 33 × 31.1 cm (13 × 12 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.658

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

across bottom printed in image: (NY4--APRIL 26)--BODIES OF SLAVE LABORERS AWAIT BURIAL AT GERMAN CAMP--AMERICAN SOLDIERS / EXAMINE THE BODIES OF SOME OF THE 2,700 SLAVE LABORERS AWAITING BURIAL AT THE GERMAN CON- / CENTRATION CAMP IN NORDHAUSEN, GERMANY. AMERICAN OFFICERS IMPRESSED MALE CIVILIANS OF / THE TOWN TO BURY THE BODIES. (EDS: THE ORIGINAL PHOTO IS SIMILAR TO A RADIOPHOTO PREVIOUSLY / SERVICED) (AP WIREPHOTO) (TJH50700-L-PL) 1945.; on verso, upper right and lower right stamped twice in purple ink: APR27 1945; center Associated Press copyright stamp in red ink; by unknown hand, lower center in graphite: 4/26/45 / 8yoH [?]; bottom center in graphite: World War II-concentration camps

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