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- Collection: Photographs
Close up of two emaciated, naked corpses [Bergen-Belsen]Content Note: The corpses of the male prisoners lie head-to-head on the ground. One has his arms spread to the sides, and his rib cage stands out…
"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 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 BuchenwaldContent Note: Liberators listen while a survivor explains how prisoners were beaten. A dummy dressed in a prisoner's uniform is used in the…
"Civilians are forced to dig graves and handle bodies with bare hands" [Ohrdruf]Content Note: Title from caption on reverse. Townspeople dig a row of individual graves with shovels. In the background, a row of white stakes that…
Group of people sitting outside of OhrdrufContent Note: A group of people sit in a field outside of Ordruf. A few people stand together toward the righthand sit of those seated. In the…
"The hanging or whipping post" [Ohrdruf]Content Note: Title from caption on reverse. A scaffold near barrack 19. Some clothing hangs from the branch of a tree behind the scaffold. …
"2 SS Germans. Russians recognized in town and killed" [Ohrdruf]Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Additional caption text: "Thses [sic] had put on civilian clothing." Four liberators stand over the…
"One [liberator] thinks it over" [Ohrdruf]Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. A liberator stands amid the corpses of prisoners laid out for burial. He has his rifle slung over…
"Bodys [sic] just before burial" [Ohrdruf]Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. A liberator walks between the rows of prisoner corpses prepared for burial. The bodies have been…