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Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Lt. Gen. Quinn served as the G-2 of the 7th Army and witnessed the liberation of Dachau. Location of interview: Washington, D.C.

Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Duncan served with the 65th Infantry Division and witnessed the liberation of Ohrdruf. Location of interview: Atlanta, Georgia.

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…

Content Note: Prisoners at a "food bash" or celebratory party for which they had saved up food. (Such bashes took place on holidays or birthdays).

Content Note: Prisoner recreational activities. Two prisoners box in a ring in front of a crowd. Barrack is visible in the background.

Content Note: Grave in which 50 British officers were buried after their failed attempt to escape. Minister stands over the grave with prisoners on either side of him.

Content Note: Prisoner choir singing Handel's Messiah. (Crawford is standing under the arrow.)

Content Note: Prisoners moving coal in a wheel barrow.

Content Note: Barrack that collapsed because much of the wood had been removed to help build the escape tunnel and a lot of dirt from the tunnel had been hidden in the ceiling.

Content Note: Prison doctor examines a prisoner's hand in the infirmary in the camp.