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Liberators examine corpses of prisoners [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Text on reverse: "Be sure and keep these pictures, honey. These I taken [sic] myself." A naked, emaciated corpse lies in the center foreground. Behind the corpse, liberators walk between and behind the other corpses scattered on the…
"Some of these were starved to death, some crippled, all shot in the back." [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Corpses of executed prisoners lying on the ground near the barracks. All are clothed in prisoner uniforms. A liberator is running away from the camera in the upper left corner (toward a barrack.) …
"Some camp between Frankfort and Limbach" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Liberators observe and examine corpses of executed prisoners near barrack 7. Numbered 38 on the reverse.
George Pierce Ricketts letter to his wife (2)
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).
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).
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.
James Dodd Reese interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Reese served with the 13th Infantry Regiment of the 8th Infantry Division as a Regimental Chaplain and later as an Assistant Division Chaplain and witnessed the liberation of Wobbelin. Location of…
Survivors eating [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Several survivors stand or sit alongside a building while eating. They are not wearing any clothing. Numbered 105 on the reverse.
Survivors outside at Buchenwald
Content Note: Several men stand and sit next to a long, low building. Most of them are not wearing any clothes. Numbered 101 on the reverse.
Liberator photographing corpses of prisoners [Buchenwald]
Content Note: A soldier on the lefthand side stands on a cart to take a photograph of a large pile of corpses of prisoners. Other liberators and survivors are visible in the background. The corpses are near several long, low buildings. Numbered 96…