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Photographer: Andrew Ruppenstein
Taken: August 25, 2009
Caption: Columbarium - From the North
Additional Description: According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:"...living conditions in the ghetto with respect to food supply, medicine, maintenance of residential structures, provision of basic services, and overpopulation in a limited space caused a death rate in the camp-ghetto comparable to that in Reich concentration camps like Dachau and Buchenwald. In 1942, the death rate within the ghetto accelerated so dramatically that the Germans built -- to the south of the ghetto -- a crematorium capable of handling almost 200 bodies a day.... Of the approximately 140,000 Jews transferred to Theresienstadt, nearly 90,000 were deported to points further east and almost certain death. Roughly 33,000 died in Theresienstadt itself."
Submitted: September 26, 2009, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p78483
File Size: 1.255 Megabytes

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