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"Some camp between Frankfort and Limbach" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Liberators observe and examine corpses of executed prisoners near barrack 7. Numbered 38 on the reverse.
"Smilin' thr[ough]" [Ebensee]
Content Note: Caption is from text written below the image. Survivor on a stretcher being loaded into an ambulance [?] by liberators. The survivor is holding what appears to be a folder of documents. A man in the foreground walks towards the…
"Shot by SS just before we got there" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. A liberator, his rifle slung over his shoulder, squats down to pose with the corpse of a prisoner. He has a cigarette in his mouth and is not wearing his helmet. The corpse is on a path with a low…
"Senators and representatives of the U.S. Congress... are welcomed by Maj. Gen. Lowell W. Rooks"
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "Senators and representatives of the U.S. Congress have arrived in Germany to investigate conditions in the concentration camps and D.P. camps are welcomed by Maj. Gen.…
"Russian slave laborer w/hands tied behind back forced into kneeling position over a slit trench and shot in the head" [Dachau]
Content Note: Title from caption on reverse. Kneeling man slumped forward over an open grate in the ground (view from behind him.) Numbered 81 on the reverse.
"Representative Izac looks at skulls and bodies... in an incinerator" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "Rep. Izac looks at skulls and bodies of prisoners in an incinerator at the infamous Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp near Weimar. Rep. Izac is a member of a…
"Rep. Izac talks to four repatriated American soldiers"
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "Rep. Izac talks to four repatriated American soldiers who are being returned to the U.S. L-R: Pvt. Anthony D. Alves, Pvt. John Pini, Pvt. Carleton Hardy, PFC Joe H.…
"Ready for bural [sic]" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Two rows of prisoner corpses being prepared for burial. Some corpses are clothed while others are naked. Liberators stand side-by-side around the corpses. One liberator squats down near a corpse. …
"Prisoners that were able to work like these would distribute the food in this cart" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from the caption on the reverse. Two survivors pull a hand cart down a dirt road alongside a wooden fence. They are smiling at the camera. Other survivors walk behind and alongside them. Copy made in May 1979. Numbered 76 on…
"Prisoners digging for potatoes" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Survivors dig though a mound of earth covered with straw. Copy made in May 1979. Numbered 84 on the reverse.