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Townspeople dig individual graves for corpses of prisoners [Ohrdruf]Content Note: Male civilians use picks and shovels to dig a row of graves. In the background, men watch and walk (liberators?) Stamp on reverse:…
Townspeople dig individual graves for corpses of prisoners [Ohrdruf]Content Note: Civilians use shovels and picks to dig a row of individual graves. Stamp on reverse: "Passed by U. S. Army Examiner 30646". Numbered…
Townspeople burying the victims of the Gardelegen MassacreContent Note: The charred corpses of prisoners lie in rows in an open field. Townspeople dig graves for them. Numbered 13 on the reverse.
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…
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,…
Three survivors stand behind a corpses of prisoners on a handcart [Ebensee]Content Note: The survivor in the center has his hands resting on one of the corpses. The corpses of the male prisoners are emaciated and naked. …
Three survivors appear to be preparing to slide the corpse of a prisoner into a crematorium oven [Dachau]Content Note: The emaciated, naked corpse of a prisoner lies on a narrow tray that can be slid into the crematorium oven. The corpse's hands are…
Three liberators pose behind a stack of prisoner corpses [Ohrdruf]Content Note: The corpses are stacked with either their heads or their feet toward the camera next to a building. They are emaciated, and some are…
Thomas Spruill and Jesse Lafoon interviewContent Note: Transcript of a "Witness to the Holocaust" television series interview (6/4/79). The interview was transcribed as part of the…
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Spruill served with the 191st [Tank] Battalion of the 45th Infantry Division and witnessed the…