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Loaded carts [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Several carts loaded with luggage and other bundles near the edge of a forest. Several horses graze in front of them. A boy stands near the camera on the lefthand side and a liberator walks toward the camera on the righthand side. …
Livia Greeson interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Greeson was born in Hungary. She was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944 and lived there from the ages of 14 to 15 with her mother. They were sent for a brief period to work camp in Krakow and…
Lieutenant General William W. Quinn interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Lt. Gen. Quinn served as the G-2 of the 7th Army and witnessed the liberation of Dachau. Location of interview: Washington, D.C.
Liberators view the corpses of prisoners who died while trying to escape the burning barn [Gardelegen Incident]
Content Note: The still-smoking, charred corpses of prisoners lie in a pile at one of the doors to the barn. The remains of the gasoline-soaked straw are visible beneath them. A group of liberators stand outside the barn looking at the corpses.…
Liberators view corpses of prisoners at Nordhausen
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Nordhausen. A Ninth Air Force photographer accompanying advance elements of Armor and Infantry made this picture at the slave labor camp near Nordhausen." Prisoner corpses laid out in long rows outdoors.…
Liberators view a demonstration of torture at Buchenwald
Content Note: Liberators listen while a survivor explains how prisoners were beaten. A dummy dressed in a prisoner's uniform is used in the demonstration. Caption below the photograph reads "Buchenwald." Numbered 111 on the reverse.
Liberators tend to survivors of Ebensee near the tents of the 30th Field Hospital
Content Note: In the foreground, two liberators and a survivor help another survivor rise from a stretcher in front of the entrance to a tent. The survivor on the stretcher is wearing only a striped shirt and holds his hand to his head. A liberator…
Liberators supervise townspeople removing corpses of prisoners for burial [Bergen- Belsen]
Content Note: Male civilians move emaciated, clothed corpses of prisoners from what appears to be a pile of corpses. Armed liberators oversee their work. Female civilians stand behind the corpses, watching. Barracks are visible behind some trees…
Liberators supervise townspeople burying corpses of prisoners [Bergen-Belsen]
Content Note: Corpses are laid in a deep trench. Some are clothed, all are emaciated. A group of 4 townspeople lower another corpse into place. Liberators stand along the side of the trench. Numbered 5 on the reverse.
Liberators stand near corpses of prisoners stacked next to a building under two wreaths [Buchenwald]
Content Note: The corpses are stacked three deep. Most are naked and emaciated. Numbered 108 On the reverse.