"Pile of human ashes outside furnace room" [Buchenwald]
Dublin Core
Title
"Pile of human ashes outside furnace room" [Buchenwald]
Creator
Ayers, Harold (Donor)
Description
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 of the liberators is taking a photograph of the remains. Numbered 110 on the reverse.
Identifier
06080100PHBU00AYERHA001
06080100PHBU00AYERHA001.JPG
Subject
Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Ayers, Harold
Source
1 silver gelatin print Image size: 4 1/4" x 6 5/8"; Paper size: 5" x 7" bent, scratches, damage on negative or on orginal image. Reverse of photo: writing.
Date
0 - 0 - 1945
Contributor
Emory University
Encoded as part of the SAGE Digital Archive Project: A Collaborative Project between the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, 1997-2000.
Funding for the SAGE Digital Archive Project was provided by a local foundation.
Rights
Researchers should contact the repository for terms governing the use of the collection.
Relation
Negative. TIFF image (400 dpi). JPG image (72 dpi).
Format
JPG (72 dpi); 47 KB Digital image created as part of SAGE project, 1998.
Files
Collection
Citation
Ayers, Harold (Donor), “"Pile of human ashes outside furnace room" [Buchenwald],” Witness to the Holocaust, accessed October 31, 2025, https://witness.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/items/show/359.