Major Crimes and True Crime

An American officer supports a Holocaust survivor from Budapest at the Penig concentration camp, April 1945. Penig Camp, located south of Leipzig, was a forced labor camp where Jewish women from Budapest were employed in the production of aircraft parts. When soldiers of the U.S. Army’s Third Army liberated the camp, they found 68 Jewish women, all in a state of extreme starvation. The American army ordered staff from a nearby German hospital to care for them.  The photograph was taken by a U.S. Army Signal Corps soldier and distributed by the American military.  Yad Vashem Photo Archives.