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Close-up of a female survivor with bandaged face [Bergen-Belsen]
Content Note: Close-up of a woman with bandages on her forehead and nose. She is smiling and wearing a hat and overcoat. In the background, another woman is walking towards the camera and a building is visible. Numbered 8 on the reverse.
Close up of two emaciated, naked corpses [Bergen-Belsen]
Content Note: The corpses of the male prisoners lie head-to-head on the ground. One has his arms spread to the sides, and his rib cage stands out sharply. Boot prints and hoof prints are visible in the mud. Numbered 19 on the reverse.
Civilians unload corpses of prisoners from trucks [Bergen-Belsen]
Content Note: Male and female civilians remove emaciated corpses of prisoners from trucks. Liberators supervise their work. Numbered 15 on the reverse.
Child survivors lead a line of older survivors to a U. S. Army medical station [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Children liberated from camp lead a line of older prisoners still strong enough to walk from camp to U. S. Army medical station for treatment." The children appear to be walking in rows (four across). …
Charred remains of corpses of prisoners burned on a section of railroad track in the camp [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Numbered 77 on the reverse.
Charred corpses of prisoners inside the barn burned during the Gardelegen Massacre
Content Note: Photograph is out of focus. Label on the reverse side of the photograph reads "500 burned alive". The corpses lie in a row perpendicular to the barn walls. Numbered 5 on the reverse.
Celebrating the liberation of the camp [Dachau]
Content Note: In the foreground are a series of wooden structures. Behind them (across the canal?) and behind the barbed wire fence a crowd has gathered. Behind the crowd are three barracks. A group of men waving their hats stand on the roof of…
Captured German guards [Bergen-Belsen]
Content Note: In the foreground, men wearing military uniforms stand in two rows with their backs to the camera. In front of them men in uniform interact. In the background, a truck, a barrack, and some people standing and sitting in a field are…
Caption for "The crematorium" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Text: "The Civilian is a Jew--Polished apples for 6 yrs at Weimar Concentration Camp--Who knows what price he's paid for his life, or what deeds he's done. 'We need a place to burn, our prisoners will build it and run it; we will…
Caption for "Prisoners used to produce plasma with typhus antibodies" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Text: "No, the Nazis wasn't quite insane for instance some men where [sic] allowed to live because they were continually being injected with typhus to make an immunity plasma for Berlin of course too much of a donation often caused…