![Wedding rings found by US army soldiers near the Buchenwald concentration camp. [LCID: 80623]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/a62de5c6-fca5-47ec-9ee5-11a69db3a045.jpg)
Wedding rings taken from prisoners. The rings were found near the Buchenwald concentration camp following liberation by US Army soldiers. Germany, May 1945.
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