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…
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "The patients in the upper cribs were unable to go to the latrine, making sanitation in this section intolerable." A section of bunks four levels high is visible between…
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Congressional committee listens to a former political prisoner at a Nazi concentration camp. Persons visible left to right: Sen. Wherry, Rep Izac, Sen Barkley, Sen Brooks, Rep Richards, and Rep…
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "U.S. legislators in Germany to witness Nazi concentration camp horrors at Buchenwald hear former prisoner demonstrate how victims were hung on hooks and then clubbed to…
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "Rep. Izac looks at skulls and bodies of prisoners in an incinerator at the infamous Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp near Weimar. Rep. Izac is a member of a…
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "Barkley stooping in foreground. Izac, Vorys, Short, Brooks, Wherry [stand behind him]". Only the doors of the incinerators are visible. Liberators and military…
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "This sign is on the wall of the furnace room at Buchenwald camp four miles outside Weimar, Germany where the bodies of starved and beaten victims of the Nazis were cremated after death freed them from a…
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Members of Congressional committee talk to some of the former prisoners of Buchenwald now hospitalized at the camp. Identifiable in the picture are Brooks; Brig. Gen. Frank R. Allen, SHAEF Public…
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…
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…