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"There are approximately 15 men in this pile" [Gardelegen Incident]
Content Note: Caption written on reverse of the photograph. Additional caption text: "1116 killed in this atrocity. There are approximately 15 men in this pile. This is one of the 26 pictures that are on display at the United States Holocaust…
"These are the SS guards [dead on the banks of the canal]" [Dachau]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Additional writing on reverse: "These are the SS guards. Notice [that] the people in the concentration camp [the survivors] have already stripped these [guards] of their shoes. There are more [corpses of…
"They had been dead about a week. You can imagine how they smelled." [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Naked, emaciated corpses of prisoners piled in a hut and covered with lime. Numbered 120 on the reverse.
"They were laying all over the place like this" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Corpses of executed prisoners lie on the ground near the barracks. Liberators walk between the corpses and a barrack. Numbered 105 on the reverse.
"This is one of four ovens that I saw" [Dachau]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Close-up of crematorium oven with doors open to reveal a pile of bones and ashes. Numbered 43 on the reverse.
"This is the basement of the crematorium...thats just a dummy hanging there..." [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from the caption on the reverse. Additional caption text: "This is the basement of the Crematorium. This is where the[y] beat them and if they died they had an elevator that carried them up to the ovens. That's just a dummy…
"This is the Buchy family--all underground for the Maquis and savers of American lives"
Content Note: Caption from writing on the reverse. Additional caption text: "Luxombourg Gardens Where The German Gestapo had their headquarters for Paris July 1945. All speak & write English." The Buchy family and Wile pose for a group portrait.
"This is where the S. S. troops had their offices, also our headquarters during our stay there" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Photograph of the front of the building. Copy made in May 1979. Numbered 58 on the reverse.
"This is where they lived." [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Additional writing on reverse: "If you look at Life Magazine 7 Mar '45 you can see more. Double wire fence." View from outside the perimeter fence toward a barrack. A guard tower is visible to the left.…
"Two Germans place another body of slave laborer beside a row of 30 bodies of Russian and Polish women slave laborers exhumed for identification in Helmbrechts, Germany"
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "A Russian woman who was forced to dig the graves and help bury the women led American authorities to the graves. Americans rounded up German civilians to exhume the…