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"Prisoners digging for potatoes" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Survivors dig though a mound of earth covered with straw. Copy made in May 1979. Numbered 84 on the reverse.
"Prisoners that were able to work like these would distribute the food in this cart" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from the caption on the reverse. Two survivors pull a hand cart down a dirt road alongside a wooden fence. They are smiling at the camera. Other survivors walk behind and alongside them. Copy made in May 1979. Numbered 76 on…
"This is the basement of the crematorium...thats just a dummy hanging there..." [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from the caption on the reverse. Additional caption text: "This is the basement of the Crematorium. This is where the[y] beat them and if they died they had an elevator that carried them up to the ovens. That's just a dummy…
"The Crematorium" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from the caption on the reverse. Copy made in May 1979. Numbered 87 on the reverse.
"This is where the S. S. troops had their offices, also our headquarters during our stay there" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Photograph of the front of the building. Copy made in May 1979. Numbered 58 on the reverse.
John Glustrom, Dennis Wile, and Dr. Leo Pine interview
Content Note: Transcript of a "Witness to the Holocaust" television series interview (6/4/79). The interview was transcribed as part of the International Liberators Conference. Pine served with the 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion, Glustrom served…
Dr. Leo Pine interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Pine served as 1st Lieutenant with the 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion and witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald. Location of interview: Atlanta, Georgia.
Robert Perelman interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Perelman served as a PFC with the 232nd Infantry Regiment of the 42nd Infantry Division and witnessed the liberation of Dachau. Location of interview: Omaha, Nebraska
Dwight E. Pearce interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Pearce served as a Warrant Officer, Junior Grade, with the 6th Armored Division, 86th Calvary Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized) of the 3rd Army, and witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald. …
"Crematory building" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Crematorium at Buchenwald (chimney toward the camera.) A scaffold stands in the foreground. Liberators stand and walk between the scaffold and the crematorium. One of them appears to be taking a…