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"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 wearing Red Cross insignia stand together near a pile of human remains behind a scaffold. One…
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 Buchenwald
Content Note: Liberators listen while a survivor explains how prisoners were beaten. A dummy dressed in a prisoner's uniform is used in the demonstration. Caption below the photograph reads "Buchenwald." Numbered 111 on the reverse.
Harold Ayers interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Ayers served as a first lieutenant in a medical unit and witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald. Place of interview: Atlanta, Georgia.
Henry Birnbrey interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Birnbrey served as a scout who went ahead of the Infantry Division and witnessed the liberation of a youths from box cars near [Marklborg] and toured Buchenwald after it was liberated. Location of…
Major Kenneth Bowers interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Major Bowers served with the 91st Squadron, 439th Group and, during the last two months of the war, with the 19th Tactical Air Command in the 3rd Army and witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald. …
"Alexander Breuer -- lib. of Buchenwald"
Content Note: Breuer is standing in front of a building. Donated at the 1981 Liberators Conference. Numbered 106 on the reverse.
Alexander Breuer interview
Content Note: Transcript of a video recording. Breuer served with the 2nd Battalion, 319th Infantry Regiment of the 80th Infantry Division and witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald. Location of interview: Washington, DC (International Liberators'…
Dr. Phillip Carlquist interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Carlquist served with the 1st Army and witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald. Place of interview: Atlanta, Georgia..
Congressman Edouard V. M. Izac (R-CA) interview
Content Note: Transcript of a video recording. Izac was a member of the Naval Affairs Committee in 1945. He served on the congressional committee requested by General Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1945 to visit several concentration camps shortly after…