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Matthew Nesbitt interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Nesbitt served as a Sergeant with the Royal Canadian Air force and witnessed the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. Place of interview: Atlanta, Georgia.
M. O. Robinson interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Robinson served with the 1477th Engineer Maintenance Company and witnessed the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. Location of interview: Stone Mountain, Georgia.
Colonel Carroll J. Williams interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Williams served as the Deputy Ordnance Officer of the 5th Corps Headquarters and as the designated Chief Ordnance and Intelligence Officer. He investigated factories at labor camps at Belsen Hohne (in…
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Livia Greeson interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Greeson was born in Hungary. She was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944 and lived there from the ages of 14 to 15 with her mother. They were sent for a brief period to work camp in Krakow and…
Mira Kimmelman interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Kimmelman was born near Danzig in 1923, and her family moved to Danzig in 1929. In 1939, they moved to Warsaw and then to Tomaszow to be near her grandparents. In 1943, they were deported to a work…
Survivor of Bergen-Belsen
Content Note: The head and shoulders of an emaciated male survivor who appears to be lying on a wooden bunk. Numbered 3 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. Liberators stand along the side of the trench. Numbered 5 on the reverse.
Corpses of prisoners at Bergen-Belsen
Content Note: Corpses of lying scattered on the ground. Most are unclothed, all are emaciated. Numbered 8 on the reverse.
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 reverse.
Corpses of prisoners in a pit at Bergen-Belsen
Content 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 clothed. Numbered 17 on the reverse.