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Congressional Committee talks to child survivors [Buchenwald]
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…
Nazi souvenirs from Buchenwald (human remains)
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…
Three young survivors standing behind a barbed wire fence [Buchenwald]
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…
Two survivors lying on the ground behind a barbed-wire fence [Buchenwald]
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…
"Example of what happened to inmates at Buchenwald. Literally skin and bones."
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)
Child survivors lead a line of older survivors to a U. S. Army medical station [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Children liberated from camp lead a line of older prisoners still strong enough to walk from camp to U. S. Army medical station for treatment." The children appear to be walking in rows (four across). …
Human remains from one day's killing at Buchenwald
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "This heap of ashes and bones represents only one day's killing of prisoners by SS Troops. Every day a similar pile of ashes was brought out in the courtyard of the camp. Weimar, Germany." Numbered 53 on…
"A man being murdered" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Additional caption text: "this man had been a guard but we let the inmates kill him." A crowd of survivors surrounds the guard. Many of the survivors are looking up at the camera. The crowd is near…
"The man in the center was murdered and decapitated a few minutes after this photo was taken" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: The guard stands at the center with his shirt open. He is surounded by survivors, most of whom are facing the camera. Numbered 10 on the reverse.
George Pierce Ricketts interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Ricketts served with the Company C, 305th Medical Batallion, 80th Infantry Division as a PFC. He witnessed the liberation of a camp between Frankfurt and Limbach (which he thinks was Buchenwald). …