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[THE HOLOCAUST]. Press Photo of Two Survivors of the Dachau Concentration Camp Creating a Wax Figure Display Depicting the Horrors Endured. [New York: ACME, October 4, 1945]. Black-and-white photograph with paper caption affixed to verso, as well as a press inkstamp. Approximately 181 x 198 mm. Light rubbing, some minor wear to left margin. From the caption sheet on the verso: “RECORDING THEIR TORTURES IN WAX - - DACHAU, Germany - - Awaiting transportation to their Polish homeland, these former prisoners at the infamous Dachau camp recreate, in wax, the tortures they suffered at the hands of their German captors. At right, a wax figure is strapped to a table for the ‘flogging treatment.’ The figure in center wears a sign indicating that the man has returned after being released once…”