Extremely famished Jewish survivors at Ebensee. They are in a shower unit instlalled by the US Army. Ebensee was a subcamp of Mauthausen concentration camp built by the SS in 1943 to build tunnels for armaments storage near the town of Ebensee, Austria. Though the Mauthausen complex was not an extermination centre abuse, cruelty and neglect were commonplace. Between 8,500 and 11,000 prisoners died in the camp, mostly from hunger or malnutrition. The US Army liberated the camp on 6 May 1945.

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