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Slave
laborers at
Buchenwald
, one of the
Nazi concentration camps
, at the camp's liberation in April 1945 by the
United States
Army's
80th Division
. Some 250,000 people were incarcerated in Buchenwald. Although it technically was not an
extermination camp
, one estimate places the number of deaths in there at 56,000. Author and future
Nobel Laureate
Elie Wiesel
is on the second row from the bottom, seventh from the left.
Photo credit: Pvt. H. Miller,
U.S. Army
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