• Czech Survivor of a Nazi Concentration Camp in Flossenburg, Germany, May 4, 1945

    Czech Survivor of a Nazi Concentration Camp in Flossenburg, Germany, May 4, 1945

    The image shows a very thin and sick looking man who is the victim of the holocaust. He is with two men who are holding him up.
    Courtesy of Library of Congress, "This 23-year-old Czech victim of dysentery in Nazi camp at Flossenburg, Germany, was found by 97th Division of U.S. Army / Signal Corps U.S. Army," 4 May 1945

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    This photograph shows an emaciated 23-year-old Czech man being held up by two other men. This young man was suffering from dysentery — an severe infection of the intestines — at a Nazi concentration camp in Flossenburg, Germany. He was found by the 97th Division of the U.S. Army when the camp was liberated. 

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    "This 23-year-old Czech victim of dysentery in Nazi camp at Flossenburg, Germany, was found by 97th Division of U.S. Army / Signal Corps U.S. Army," 4 May 1945. Courtesy of Library of Congress

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