Browse Items (395 total)

  • Collection: Photographs

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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…

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Content Note: Writing on reverse: "Plain wooden crosses are stacked on the ground while German civilians dig graves for victims of the mass burnings at the Gardelegen Camp on the Elbe River. The civilians are guarded by the troops of the Ninth U. S.…

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Content Note: Writing on reverse: "The victims were tossed into mass grave; the civilians dug individual graves and reburied each victim." German citizens carrying shovels walk down a dirt road escorted by troops from the Ninth Army. Town buildings…

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Content Note: The corpses appear to have had lye thrown on them, and tarps cover some of the bodies. Numbered 2 on the reverse.

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Content Note: Corpses of prisoners lie in rows in a field in preparation for burial. Numbered 1 on the reverse.

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Content Note: Label on the reverse side of the photograph reads "500 burned alive". Corpses of other prisoners are visible through the doorway. Numbered 6 on the reverse.

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Content Note: Label on the reverse side of the photograph reads "500 burned alive". The four men lift the sheet by its corners as they walk through the barn door. Numbered 4 on the reverse.

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Content Note: Photograph is out of focus. Label on the reverse side of the photograph reads "500 burned alive". The corpses lie in a row perpendicular to the barn walls. Numbered 5 on the reverse.

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Content Note: Label on the reverse side of the photograph reads "500 burned alive". Two of the charred corpses lie outside the barn door. The liberator stands next to the door frame looking at those two corpses. Other corpses lie inside the…

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Content Note: The charred corpses of prisoners lie in rows in an open field. Townspeople dig graves for them. Numbered 13 on the reverse.
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