Under the supervision of American medics, German civilians file past the bodies of Jewish women exhumed from a mass grave in Volary. [LCID: 24686]
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German civilians view a mass grave in Volary

Under the supervision of American medics, German civilians file past the bodies of Jewish women exhumed from a mass grave in Volary. The victims died at the end of a death march from Helmbrechts, a subcamp of Flossenbürg. Germans were forced to exhume them in order to give the victims proper burial. Volary, Czechoslovakia, May 11, 1945.

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  • US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Harold Royall

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