Browse Items (498 total)

Content Note: The corpses are stacked with either their heads or their feet toward the camera next to a building. They are emaciated, and some are clothed while others are not. Two of the liberators are wearing gloves. Numbered 78 on the reverse.

Content Note: Numbered 79 on the reverse.

Content Note: Numbered 77 on the reverse.

Content Note: A scaffold near the barracks. Three liberators stand behind it, looking at it. Numbered 76 on the reverse.

Content Note: Male civilians use shovels and picks to dig graves. Liberators stand over them with rifles slung over their shoulders, observing their work. Numbered 74 on the reverse.

Content Note: The corpse of a male prisoner who had died prior to the evacuation (and had been placed in a hut with other corpses and covered with lime) lies face down near the corpses of prisoners executed when Ohrdruf was evacuated. Liberators…

Content Note: Clothed corpses of executed prisoners lie in the foreground. Liberators walk and stand behind them. On the lefthand side, a small group of liberators talk to some survivors, one of whom gestures to the right. A barrack is visible in…

Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Tirey served in Combat Command R of the 12th Armored Division and witnessed the liberation of Landau. Goodfriend was interned at a forced labor camp in Poland, escaped, and was then hidden by a Polish…

Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Thouin served with the commanding officer of the 62nd Armored Infantry Battalion Medical Detachment, 14th Armored Division, Third Army, and witnessed the liberation of several boxcars near Buchenwald…

Content Note: Caption written on reverse of photograph. Several liberators stand on a podium. The Soviet, American and Australian [?] flags hang from the podium under a sign that says "THANKS to our LIBERATORS". Portraits of Franklin Delano…