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Close-up of corpses of prisoners [Dachau]
Content Note: Close-up of corpses of prisoners piled several deep, feet towards the camera. The corpses are naked. Numbered 2 on the reverse.
Pile of clothes [Dachau]
Content Note: Large pile of clothes near a building. Soldiers walk near the building. Numbered 1 on the reverse.
Hela Klug interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Klug was born in Poland in 1928 and grew up in Danzig. Her family moved to Lodz and then to Czenstochowa. In 1942, she was deported to the Oberalpstadt work camp near Theresienstadt, from which she was…
John William Keithan, Jr., interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Keithan taped a narrative and sent it to the Project. He served with the 'H' Company, 232nd Infantry Regiment, 42nd Infantry Division, as a technician, fifth grade, and witnessed the liberation of…
Two liberators view a row of corpses of female prisoners [Mauthausen]
Content Note: The liberators' helmets have "MP" on them. The corpses are emaciated and naked. Numbered 16 on the reverse.
German civilians view corpses of prisoners under supervision of liberators [Mauthausen]
Content Note: In the foreground, the naked corpses of female prisoners lie on the ground in rows. Cloth or clothing lies between and around the corpses. In the background, liberators and what appear to be German civilians stand looking at the…
William J. Jucksch interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Jucksch served as a PFC with the 71st Infantry Division of the 3rd Army and witnessed the liberation of Gunskirchen. Location of interview: Waterford, Connecticut. The case file also contains a…
Lauren Nash interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Nash served first with the 961st Engineer Maintenance Company and later with the 20th Corps of Engineers in the 3rd Army. He witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald. Place of interview: Atlanta,…
Denton Harris interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Harris served with the 86th Infantry Division (Intelligence Reconnaissance) and witnessed the liberation of a work camp near Inglestadt on the Danube River and of a medieval castle used as a camp. …
Townspeople burying the corpses of prisoners (from a distance) [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: On the left hand side of the photo a row of open, individual graves is visible. The further graves have white stakes driven into the ground above them. In the center of the photo in the distance, townspeople are digging. Numbered 21…