Photographs
Dublin Core
Title
Photographs
Description
Photographs by concentration camp liberators.
Collection Items
Survivor of Bergen-Belsen
Content Note: The head and shoulders of an emaciated male survivor who appears to be lying on a wooden bunk. Numbered 3 on the reverse.
"Liberation cermonies" [Flossenburg]
!["Liberation cermonies" [Flossenburg]](https://witness.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/files/square_thumbnails/ea21790dfd817e733e861c54668641db.jpg ""Liberation cermonies" [Flossenburg]")
Content Note: Caption written on reverse of photograph. Several liberators stand on a podium. The Soviet, American and Australian [?] flags hang from the podium under a sign that says "THANKS to our LIBERATORS". Portraits of Franklin Delano…
Two liberators stand under a sign reading "We welcome our liberators" at Flossenburg
![Two liberators stand under a sign reading "We welcome our liberators" at Flossenburg](https://witness.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/files/square_thumbnails/06e591b9c292d08ad2cdd9ac920d8fea.jpg "Two liberators stand under a sign reading "We welcome our liberators" at Flossenburg")
Content Note: The sign is on a tall pole in front of a building. Numbered 6 on the reverse.
"Pile of human ashes outside furnace room" [Buchenwald]
!["Pile of human ashes outside furnace room" [Buchenwald]](https://witness.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/files/square_thumbnails/a49e3027dee5346ca3bf2022cc9f3916.jpg ""Pile of human ashes outside furnace room" [Buchenwald]")
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Additional caption text: "Represents 8,000 bodies. Mr. Ayers is the soldier wit the camera." Liberators wearing Red Cross insignia stand together near a pile of human remains behind a scaffold. One…
Liberators stand near corpses of prisoners stacked next to a building under two wreaths [Buchenwald]
![Liberators stand near corpses of prisoners stacked next to a building under two wreaths [Buchenwald]](https://witness.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/files/square_thumbnails/4022a55238ed53f800a0ca928c610fb6.jpg "Liberators stand near corpses of prisoners stacked next to a building under two wreaths [Buchenwald]")
Content Note: The corpses are stacked three deep. Most are naked and emaciated. Numbered 108 On the reverse.
Liberators view a demonstration of torture at Buchenwald
Content Note: Liberators listen while a survivor explains how prisoners were beaten. A dummy dressed in a prisoner's uniform is used in the demonstration. Caption below the photograph reads "Buchenwald." Numbered 111 on the reverse.
"Alexander Breuer -- lib. of Buchenwald"
!["Alexander Breuer -- lib. of Buchenwald"](https://witness.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/files/square_thumbnails/a3a058fdafac5ce7cc63fb7eb67ab9eb.jpg ""Alexander Breuer -- lib. of Buchenwald"")
Content Note: Breuer is standing in front of a building. Donated at the 1981 Liberators Conference. Numbered 106 on the reverse.
"A section of the hospital cribs" [Buchenwald]
!["A section of the hospital cribs" [Buchenwald]](https://witness.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/files/square_thumbnails/47a8a848fabdd1deeff7aed0d3c1944e.jpg ""A section of the hospital cribs" [Buchenwald]")
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "The patients in the upper cribs were unable to go to the latrine, making sanitation in this section intolerable." A section of bunks four levels high is visible between…
"Interviewing former political prisoner at a Nazi concentration camp in German" [Buchenwald]
!["Interviewing former political prisoner at a Nazi concentration camp in German" [Buchenwald]](https://witness.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/files/square_thumbnails/85197adc78daefeba2ff345351cbe025.jpg ""Interviewing former political prisoner at a Nazi concentration camp in German" [Buchenwald]")
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Congressional committee listens to a former political prisoner at a Nazi concentration camp. Persons visible left to right: Sen. Wherry, Rep Izac, Sen Barkley, Sen Brooks, Rep Richards, and Rep…