This was taken moments after Jewish refugees realized they weren’t being sent to their deaths at the horrible concentration camps and were in fact being saved.

This is one incredible picture with the expressions of relief written all over the faces of everyone in the picture. This was taken in April 1945, just a few moments after the Jewish prisoners realized that they were indeed being saved. The look of relief is more significant because most of them thought just moments ago that they were being sent to the concentration camps and inevitable death. This photograph was taken by Major Benjamin at the moment the first of the refugees became aware of their liberation. Their body language clearly depicts the extreme sense of reprieve, as they begin to move up the hill from the train, towards the troops who have liberated them.