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"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…
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…
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.
"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." …
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…
Liberators supervise townspeople removing corpses of prisoners for burial [Bergen- Belsen]Content Note: Male civilians move emaciated, clothed corpses of prisoners from what appears to be a pile of corpses. Armed liberators oversee their…
Corpses of prisoners in a pit at Bergen-BelsenContent Note: Image shows one side of a deep pit filled with naked, emaciated corpses of prisoners. One corpse lying on the wall of the pit is…
Civilians unload corpses of prisoners from trucks [Bergen-Belsen]Content Note: Male and female civilians remove emaciated corpses of prisoners from trucks. Liberators supervise their work. Numbered 15 on the…
Corpses of prisoners at Bergen-BelsenContent Note: Corpses of lying scattered on the ground. Most are unclothed, all are emaciated. Numbered 8 on the reverse.
Liberators supervise townspeople burying corpses of prisoners [Bergen-Belsen]Content Note: Corpses are laid in a deep trench. Some are clothed, all are emaciated. A group of 4 townspeople lower another corpse into place. …