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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…
Denton Harris interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Harris served with the 86th Infantry Division (Intelligence Reconnaissance) and witnessed the liberation of a work camp near Inglestadt on the Danube River and of a medieval castle used as a camp. …
William J. Jucksch interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Jucksch served as a PFC with the 71st Infantry Division of the 3rd Army and witnessed the liberation of Gunskirchen. Location of interview: Waterford, Connecticut. The case file also contains a…
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). …
"Fred Mercer, Co. B, 69th Sig. Bn., XX Corps, 3rd Army" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Fred Mercer poses between two Army jeeps. A large group of American troops are gathered behind the jeeps. Numbered 116 on the reverse.
Fred Mercer interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Mercer served with the 'B' Company, 69th Signal Battalion, 20th Corps of the 3rd Army and witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald. Location of interview: Warner Robins, Georgia.
John Glustrom, Dennis Wile, and Dr. Leo Pine interview
Content Note: Transcript of a "Witness to the Holocaust" television series interview (6/4/79). The interview was transcribed as part of the International Liberators Conference. Pine served with the 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion, Glustrom served…
Joseph Porter Reilly interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Reilly served with the 102nd Calvary Group of the 3rd Army and witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald and Dachau. Place of interview: New York, New York.
George Pierce Ricketts letter to his wife (1)
Content Note: 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).