"U.S. legislators... hear former prisoner demonstrate how victims were... clubbed to death" [Buchenwald]

"U.S. legislators... hear former prisoner demonstrate how victims were... clubbed to death" [Buchenwald]

Izac, Edouard Victor Michel (Donor)

United States--Army--Signal Corps (Photographer)

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 death. L-R: Thomason, Mott, Brooks, Wherry, Barkley, Short, Vorys. Former prisoner is shown holding club." The survivor is wearing a coat with the number 38210 on the front under a triangle and "Lagerschutz" on the left sleeve. Numbered 9 on the reverse (Izac 7)

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Buchenwald (Concentration camp)

United States--Congress--Joint Committee on Conditions in Concentration Camps in Germany

Thomason, R. Ewing

Mott, James Wheaton

Brooks, C. Wayland

Wherry, Kenneth Spicer

Barkley, Alben William

Short, Dewey J.

Vorys, John M.

Izac, Edouard Victor Michel

1 silver gelatin print Image size: 4 1/2" x 6 9/16"; Paper size: 5" x 7 1/16" bent, scratches, damage on negative. Reverse of photo: paper label, writing.

4 - 24 - 1945

Emory University

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Negative. TIFF image (400 dpi). JPG image (72 dpi).

JPG (72 dpi); 46 KB Digital image created as part of SAGE project, 1998.