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"A man being murdered" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Additional caption text: "this man had been a guard but we let the inmates kill him." A crowd of survivors surrounds the guard. Many of the survivors are looking up at the camera. The crowd is near…
"A section of the hospital cribs" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "The patients in the upper cribs were unable to go to the latrine, making sanitation in this section intolerable." A section of bunks four levels high is visible between…
"A shot of some of the tatoos [sic]" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on reverse. Additional caption text: "They even made lampshades from some of the tatoos [sic]." Several sections of human skin with tattoos that have been mounted for display. They are propped up against a tree. …
"Alexander Breuer -- lib. of Buchenwald"
Content Note: Breuer is standing in front of a building. Donated at the 1981 Liberators Conference. Numbered 106 on the reverse.
"Another shot of the men of Weimar comming [sic] out to dig graves" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on reverse. A long column of German civilians walking away from the camera. Two German policemen follow them. They are walking along a road next to some tracks. They are going to dig graves for the prisoners who…
"Another shot of the naked woman tatooed [sic] on a mans chest" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on reverse. A survivor holds a section of human skin with a tattoo mounted for display. Other survivors are visible walking in the background. Copy made in May 1979. Numbered 88 on the reverse.
"Another shot of the prisoners going out for a walk" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. A large group of survivors wearing hats and overcoats walks away from the camera along a road. Copy made in May 1979. Numbered 69 on the reverse.
"Barracks where 2000 lived" [Gunskirchen]
Content Note: Caption written on the reverse side of the photograph. Barrack is in a forest and appears to be constructed out of logs. A few survivors stand together in front of it. Numbered 12 on the reverse.
"Bodies awaiting burial" [Nordhausen]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Additional caption text: "German civilians were drafted to help in removing and burying the dead." Two long, parallel trenches with the corpses of prisoners laid side-by-side down their length. Between…
"Bodies of 200 Russian POWs, most of whom died of starvation in Hemer, Germany."
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "Out of a total of 22,000, about 100 died per day." Several rows of clothed corpses lie in a grassy field. Numbered 9 on the reverse (Izac 80)