"U.S. legislators... hear former prisoner demonstrate how victims were... clubbed to death" [Buchenwald]
Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
United States--Congress--Joint Committee on Conditions in Concentration Camps in Germany
Thomason, R. Ewing
Mott, James Wheaton
Brooks, C. Wayland
Wherry, Kenneth Spicer
Barkley, Alben William
Short, Dewey J.
Vorys, John M.
Izac, Edouard Victor Michel
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "U.S. legislators in Germany to witness Nazi concentration camp horrors at Buchenwald hear former prisoner demonstrate how victims were hung on hooks and then clubbed to death. L-R: Thomason, Mott, Brooks, Wherry, Barkley, Short, Vorys. Former prisoner is shown holding club." The survivor is wearing a coat with the number 38210 on the front under a triangle and "Lagerschutz" on the left sleeve. Numbered 9 on the reverse (Izac 7)
Izac, Edouard Victor Michel (Donor)
United States--Army--Signal Corps (Photographer)
1 silver gelatin print Image size: 4 1/2" x 6 9/16"; Paper size: 5" x 7 1/16" bent, scratches, damage on negative. Reverse of photo: paper label, writing.
4 - 24 - 1945
Emory University
Encoded as part of the SAGE Digital Archive Project: A Collaborative Project between the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, 1997-2000.
Funding for the SAGE Digital Archive Project was provided by a local foundation.
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Negative. TIFF image (400 dpi). JPG image (72 dpi).
JPG (72 dpi); 46 KB Digital image created as part of SAGE project, 1998.
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"Representative Izac looks at skulls and bodies... in an incinerator" [Buchenwald]
Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
United States--Congress--Joint Committee on Conditions in Concentration Camps in Germany
United States--Army--Signal Corps
Izac, Edouard Victor Michel
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "Rep. Izac looks at skulls and bodies of prisoners in an incinerator at the infamous Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp near Weimar. Rep. Izac is a member of a congressional group witnessing evidence of Nazi atrocities." Close-up of Rep. Izac looking into an incinerator containing human remains. The contents of the incinerator are visible through the open doors. Numbered 28 on the reverse (Izac 9)
Izac, Edouard Victor Michel (Donor)
United States--Army--Signal Corps (Photographer)
1 silver gelatin print Image size: 4 1/2" x 6 1/2"; Paper size: 5" x 7 1/8" bent, scratches, fingerprints, damage on negative. Reverse of photo: paper label, writing.
4 - 24 - 1945
Emory University
Encoded as part of the SAGE Digital Archive Project: A Collaborative Project between the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, 1997-2000.
Funding for the SAGE Digital Archive Project was provided by a local foundation.
Researchers should contact the repository for terms governing the use of the collection.
Negative. TIFF image (400 dpi). JPG image (72 dpi).
JPG (72 dpi); 55 KB Digital image created as part of SAGE project, 1998.
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"Bones and human remains in a giant corpse incinerator" [Buchenwald]
Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
United States--Congress--Joint Committee on Conditions in Concentration Camps in Germany
Barkley, Alben William
Vorys, John M.
Short, Dewey J.
Brooks, C. Wayland
Wherry, Kenneth Spicer
Izac, Edouard Victor Michel
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "Barkley stooping in foreground. Izac, Vorys, Short, Brooks, Wherry [stand behind him]". Only the doors of the incinerators are visible. Liberators and military officials stand behind the congressional committee members. Numbered 31 on the reverse (Izac 10)
Izac, Edouard Victor Michel (Donor)
1 silver gelatin print Image size: 4 1/2" x 6 1/2"; Paper size: 5" x 7 1/8" torn, bent, cracked, scratches, damage on negative. Reverse of photo: adhesive of tape or glue on lower and upper left corners, paper label, writing.
4 - 24 - 1945
Emory University
Encoded as part of the SAGE Digital Archive Project: A Collaborative Project between the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, 1997-2000.
Funding for the SAGE Digital Archive Project was provided by a local foundation.
Researchers should contact the repository for terms governing the use of the collection.
Negative. TIFF image (400 dpi). JPG image (72 dpi).
JPG (72 dpi); 56 KB Digital image created as part of SAGE project, 1998.
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Sign on the wall of the crematorium at Buchenwald
Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Izac, Edouard Victor Michel
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "This sign is on the wall of the furnace room at Buchenwald camp four miles outside Weimar, Germany where the bodies of starved and beaten victims of the Nazis were cremated after death freed them from a life of horror and agony. The sign reads 'No filthy worms shall nourish from my body; the clean flame--it shall consume me. I always love warmth and light, therefore cremate but bury me not.' " Numbered 36 on the reverse (Izac 12)
Izac, Edouard Victor Michel (Donor)
1 silver gelatin print Image size: 4 7/16" x 6 1/2"; Paper size: 5" x 7 1/16" bent, scratches. Reverse of photo: paper label, writing.
1 - 1 - 1945
Emory University
Encoded as part of the SAGE Digital Archive Project: A Collaborative Project between the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, 1997-2000.
Funding for the SAGE Digital Archive Project was provided by a local foundation.
Researchers should contact the repository for terms governing the use of the collection.
Negative. TIFF image (400 dpi). JPG image (72 dpi).
JPG (72 dpi); 44 KB Digital image created as part of SAGE project, 1998.
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Congressional committee talks to survivors hospitalized at Buchenwald
Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
United States--Congress--Joint Committee on Conditions in Concentration Camps in Germany
Brooks, C. Wayland
Allen, Frank R.
Weir, John M.
Barkley, Alben William
Izac, Edouard Victor Michel
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Members of Congressional committee talk to some of the former prisoners of Buchenwald now hospitalized at the camp. Identifiable in the picture are Brooks; Brig. Gen. Frank R. Allen, SHAEF Public Relations Department; Brig. Gen. John M. Weir, War Department Representative; Barkely." The survivors are lying on the floor under quilted covers. One survivor wearing a white coat is standing and pointing to those on the floor. Numbered 40 on the reverse (Izac 13)
Izac, Edouard Victor Michel (Donor)
1 silver gelatin print Image size: 4 1/2" x 6 1/2"; Paper size: 5" x 7 1/8" bent, scratches, moisture wrinkling. Reverse of photo: paper label, dirt/staining, writing.
1 - 1 - 1945
Emory University
Encoded as part of the SAGE Digital Archive Project: A Collaborative Project between the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, 1997-2000.
Funding for the SAGE Digital Archive Project was provided by a local foundation.
Researchers should contact the repository for terms governing the use of the collection.
Negative. TIFF image (400 dpi). JPG image (72 dpi).
JPG (72 dpi); 44 KB Digital image created as part of SAGE project, 1998.
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Congressional Committee talks to child survivors [Buchenwald]
Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
United States--Congress--Joint Committee on Conditions in Concentration Camps in Germany
Richards, James P.
Wherry, Kenneth Spicer
Barkley, Alben William
Brooks, C. Wayland
Mott, James Wheaton
Thomason, R. Ewing
Short, Dewey J.
Vorys, John M.
Izac, Edouard Victor Michel
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Talking to children inmates: Richards, Wherry, Barkley, Brooks, Mott, Izac, Thomason, Short, Vorys." The children are wearing prisoner uniforms and hold musical instruments. The congressional delegation stands behind them. They appear to be in an office. Numbered 44 on the reverse (Izac 14)
Izac, Edouard Victor Michel (Donor)
1 silver gelatin print Image size: 4 1/2" x 6 1/2"; Paper size: 5" x 7 1/8" bent, scratches, damage on negative. Reverse of photo: paper label, writing.
1 - 1 - 1945
Emory University
Encoded as part of the SAGE Digital Archive Project: A Collaborative Project between the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, 1997-2000.
Funding for the SAGE Digital Archive Project was provided by a local foundation.
Researchers should contact the repository for terms governing the use of the collection.
Negative. TIFF image (400 dpi). JPG image (72 dpi).
JPG (72 dpi); 51 KB Digital image created as part of SAGE project, 1998.
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Nazi souvenirs from Buchenwald (human remains)
Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
United States--Army--Army, 3rd
United States--Army--Signal Corps
Izac, Edouard Victor Michel
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Exhibit of souvenirs made up by the Nazis at Buchenwald, seized by Gen. Patton's Third Army. German civilians are brought from town to gaze upon shrunken human heads, left, parts of organs of victims who died of various diseases, and stencillings and tatoo [sic] markings on sections of human skin, foreground, lamp at right was fabricated from skin of camp's dead." Numbered 47 on the reverse (Izac 15)
Izac, Edouard Victor Michel (Donor)
United States--Army--Signal Corps (Photographer)
1 silver gelatin print Image size: 4 1/2" x 6 1/2"; Paper size: 5" x 7 1/16" torn, bent, scratches, fingerprints, worn edges, damage on negative. Reverse of photo: 2 paper labels, tape, surface torn where tape removed, writing.
4 - 16 - 1945
Emory University
Encoded as part of the SAGE Digital Archive Project: A Collaborative Project between the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, 1997-2000.
Funding for the SAGE Digital Archive Project was provided by a local foundation.
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Negative. TIFF image (400 dpi). JPG image (72 dpi).
JPG (72 dpi); 48 KB Digital image created as part of SAGE project, 1998.
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Three young survivors standing behind a barbed wire fence [Buchenwald]
Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
United States--Army--Army, 3rd
Izac, Edouard Victor Michel
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Third Army exposes horror of Buchenwald camp. Liberated inmates of Buchenwald, injured and emaciated, are pictured behind barbed wire fence enclosing the area. Many mature prisoners looked like youths because of their emaciation." The three young men stand behind a high barbed-wire fence. One has a cane. Camp buildings are visible in the background. [Photo not included in digital archive because of copyright restrictions.] Numbered 48 on the reverse (Izac 16)
Izac, Edouard Victor Michel (Donor)
1 silver gelatin print Image size: 6 1/2" x 4 1/2"; Paper size: 7 1/16" x 5" bent, scratches, fingerprints, worn edges. Reverse of photo: 2 paper labels, surface torn where tape removed, writing.
1 - 1 - 1945
Emory University
Encoded as part of the SAGE Digital Archive Project: A Collaborative Project between the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, 1997-2000.
Funding for the SAGE Digital Archive Project was provided by a local foundation.
Researchers should contact the repository for terms governing the use of the collection.
Negative. TIFF image (400 dpi). JPG image (72 dpi).
JPG (72 dpi); 81 KB Digital image created as part of SAGE project, 1998.
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Two survivors lying on the ground behind a barbed-wire fence [Buchenwald]
Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Izac, Edouard Victor Michel
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Two exhausted prisoners are stretched out on the bare ground behind the barbed wire fencing. They are too weak to realize their newly-found freedom." Both survivors wear prison uniforms. Only one is wearing shoes. Numbered 49 on the reverse (Izac 17)
Izac, Edouard Victor Michel (Donor)
1 silver gelatin print Image size: 4 1/2" x 6 1/2"; Paper size: 5" x 7 1/8" bent, scratches, worn edges. Reverse of photo: paper label, writing.
1 - 1 - 1945
Emory University
Encoded as part of the SAGE Digital Archive Project: A Collaborative Project between the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, 1997-2000.
Funding for the SAGE Digital Archive Project was provided by a local foundation.
Researchers should contact the repository for terms governing the use of the collection.
Negative. TIFF image (400 dpi). JPG image (72 dpi).
JPG (72 dpi); 60 KB Digital image created as part of SAGE project, 1998.
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"Example of what happened to inmates at Buchenwald. Literally skin and bones."
Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Izac, Edouard Victor Michel
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Male survivor standing with a checkered cloth wrapped around him. His legs and face are emaciated. A camp building is visible in the background. Numbered 50 on the reverse (Izac 18)
Izac, Edouard Victor Michel (Donor)
1 silver gelatin print Image size: 6 9/16" x 4 1/2"; Paper size: 7" x 5" bent, scratches, worn edges. Reverse of photo: paper label, writing.
1 - 1 - 1945
Emory University
Encoded as part of the SAGE Digital Archive Project: A Collaborative Project between the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, 1997-2000.
Funding for the SAGE Digital Archive Project was provided by a local foundation.
Researchers should contact the repository for terms governing the use of the collection.
Negative. TIFF image (400 dpi). JPG image (72 dpi).
JPG (72 dpi); 81 KB Digital image created as part of SAGE project, 1998.
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