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Rabbi Judah Nadich interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Nadich served as a Major (and later as the advisor on Jewish affairs for General Eisenhower) with the Theater Headquarters, European Theater Operations, and was involved with the Displaced Persons…
Area with corpses of executed prisoners after most have been removed for burial [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Corpses of executed prisoners lying in an open area near some barracks. Only a small number remain compared with other photographs of the same area. A stretcher has been left near the corpses. The prisoners wear prison uniforms. …
Military trucks moving corpses of prisoners [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Military vehicles in a large, muddy field. A man stands behind a trailer attached to a truck. The trailer appears to contain prisoner corpses. In the background, there is another truck. Numbered 58 on the reverse.
John Dunn interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Dunn served with the 45th infantry division and was responsible for the burial of soldiers. He witnessed the liberation of Dachau. Location of interview: Atlanta, Georgia.
Jesse Lafoon interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Lafoon served with the 54th Field Hospital, [7th Army?], and witnessed the liberation of Dachau. He also worked in a field hospital near a displaced persons camp in Goppingen run by UNRRA after the…
Frank D. Spiegel interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Spiegel served with the 308th Ordnance Company, 82nd Airborne Division and witnessed the liberation of Wobbelin. Location of interview: Atlanta, Georgia.
Thomas J. Spruill interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Spruill served with the 191st [Tank] Battalion of the 45th Infantry Division and witnessed the liberation of Dachau. Location of interview: Tucker, Georgia.
Willie Tatum interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Tatum served as a PFC with the 42nd Infantry Division and witnessed the liberation of Dachau. Location of interview: Ft. Gaines, Georgia.
"Liberation cermonies" [Flossenburg]
Content Note: Caption written on reverse of photograph. Several liberators stand on a podium. The Soviet, American and Australian [?] flags hang from the podium under a sign that says "THANKS to our LIBERATORS". Portraits of Franklin Delano…
Dr. Lawrence G. Thouin interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Thouin served with the commanding officer of the 62nd Armored Infantry Battalion Medical Detachment, 14th Armored Division, Third Army, and witnessed the liberation of several boxcars near Buchenwald…