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Newly arriving prisoners are registered upon arrival at Buchenwald concentration camp located near Weimar, Germany. Below: SS officials speaking among themselves during a roll call of prisoners.

Below: Prisoners from Buchenwald that have been taken into the nearby woods are shown shortly before their execution by the SS.

(Photo credits: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Lorenz Schmuhl Collection, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives)

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