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Human remains from one day's killing at Buchenwald
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "This heap of ashes and bones represents only one day's killing of prisoners by SS Troops. Every day a similar pile of ashes was brought out in the courtyard of the camp. Weimar, Germany." Numbered 53 on…
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). …
"Example of what happened to inmates at Buchenwald. Literally skin and bones."
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Male survivor standing with a checkered cloth wrapped around him. His legs and face are emaciated. A camp building is visible in the background. Numbered 50 on the reverse (Izac 18)
Two survivors lying on the ground behind a barbed-wire fence [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Two exhausted prisoners are stretched out on the bare ground behind the barbed wire fencing. They are too weak to realize their newly-found freedom." Both survivors wear prison uniforms. Only one is…
Three young survivors standing behind a barbed wire fence [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Third Army exposes horror of Buchenwald camp. Liberated inmates of Buchenwald, injured and emaciated, are pictured behind barbed wire fence enclosing the area. Many mature prisoners looked like youths…
Nazi souvenirs from Buchenwald (human remains)
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Exhibit of souvenirs made up by the Nazis at Buchenwald, seized by Gen. Patton's Third Army. German civilians are brought from town to gaze upon shrunken human heads, left, parts of organs of victims who…
Congressional Committee talks to child survivors [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Talking to children inmates: Richards, Wherry, Barkley, Brooks, Mott, Izac, Thomason, Short, Vorys." The children are wearing prisoner uniforms and hold musical instruments. The congressional delegation…
Congressional committee talks to survivors hospitalized at Buchenwald
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "Members of Congressional committee talk to some of the former prisoners of Buchenwald now hospitalized at the camp. Identifiable in the picture are Brooks; Brig. Gen. Frank R. Allen, SHAEF Public…
Sign on the wall of the crematorium at Buchenwald
Content Note: Caption from a separate page: "This sign is on the wall of the furnace room at Buchenwald camp four miles outside Weimar, Germany where the bodies of starved and beaten victims of the Nazis were cremated after death freed them from a…
"Bones and human remains in a giant corpse incinerator" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "Barkley stooping in foreground. Izac, Vorys, Short, Brooks, Wherry [stand behind him]". Only the doors of the incinerators are visible. Liberators and military…