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"Prison in Landsberg where Hitler wrote 'Mein Kampf' "
Content Note: Caption written on reverse side of photograph. Exterior of the prison. Numbered 5 on the reverse.
"Polish political prisoner--said he'd been in camp for 5 years" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. A male survivor stands (seemingly at attention and smiling) on the steps leading up to a building. A barbed wire fence starts at the steps and stretches away to his right. Numbered 27 on the…
"Piles of ashes and bones" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Two liberators walk past large piles of ashes and bones near a line of trees. Numbered 51 on the reverse.
"Pile of human ashes outside furnace room" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Additional caption text: "Represents 8,000 bodies. Mr. Ayers is the soldier wit the camera." Liberators wearing Red Cross insignia stand together near a pile of human remains behind a scaffold. One…
"Party of 12 Legislators as they arrived in Europe"
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate sheet. Additional caption text: "L-R: [front] Short, Thomason, George, Barkley, Mott, Richards, Izac, Thomas. [on stairs] Saltonstall, Wherry, Brooks, Vorys. Paris, France." Congressional Joint…
"Partely [sic] disected [sic]" prisoner corpse [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Additional writing on reverse: "They left so fast they left the lights on." Naked, emaciated corpse of prisoner on a table with two large lights over it. Numbered 112 on the reverse.
"Outside the crematory, Dachau"
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Additional caption text: " (man in center is Paul Gumz). " Three liberators stand together in front of several large piles of clothing outside a crematorium at the Dachau concentration camp. …
"One of the prisoners" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. A survivor with a bandaged hand stands looking at the camera. In the background, other survivors and barracks are visible. Copy made in May 1979. Numbered 77 on the reverse.
"One of the Jews that was a prisoner" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Additional caption text: "He could speak a little English and told us some terrible stories." A survivor prisoner in a dark uniform with an arm band stands looking at the camera. In the background,…
"One of the barracks for the inmates" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on reverse. Additional caption text: "About 800 lived in one of these buildings." View of the exterior of a prisoner barrack. Clothes have been hung on the barbed wire fence in front of the building. Some of the…