On April 9, 1948, Jewish gunmen killed scores of Palestinian men, women and children in the village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem. Scene of Deir Yassin.” The photo shows a group of people walking around a pile of bodies. The photo, however, shows the bodies of people who died in the Nordhausen concentration camp in Germany in 1945. The caption adds that the image shows “less than half of the bodies of the several hundred inmates who died of starvation or were shot by Gestapo men.”VERDICTMiscaptioned. The circulating image was taken in Germany during World War Two and does not depict Deir Yassin in 1948.

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Persons: Deir, “ Israel, “ Long, Deir Yassin, Read Organizations: . Holocaust Memorial Museum, National Archives, College, U.S . National Archives, Records Administration, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Germany, Deir Yassin, Jerusalem, Israel, Gaza, Nordhausen, College Park , Maryland