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Content Note: The male survivor is naked and emaciated. Numbered 50 on the reverse.

Content Note: Some of the survivors are clothed, and others are naked. One appears to be eating from a bowl. Numbered 51 on the reverse.

Content Note: Photo is out of focus. There is a chute sloping down from the oven. Numbered 52 on the reverse.

Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Major Bowers served with the 91st Squadron, 439th Group and, during the last two months of the war, with the 19th Tactical Air Command in the 3rd Army and witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald. …

Content Note: Breuer is standing in front of a building. Donated at the 1981 Liberators Conference. Numbered 106 on the reverse.

Content Note: Transcript of a video recording. Breuer served with the 2nd Battalion, 319th Infantry Regiment of the 80th Infantry Division and witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald. Location of interview: Washington, DC (International Liberators'…

Content Note: Corpses of prisoners laid out for burial. One row of corpses wrapped in white cloth and two rows of corpses with white stakes laid on them are visible. Liberators walk along the end of the row. Stamp on reverse: "Passed by U. S. Army…

Content Note: Writing on reverse: "Upper left -- Mr. Brown". At the end of a row of corpses of prisoners wrapped in white cloth, two civilians wrap another corpse. Each corpse has a white stake laid on top of it. Corpses waiting to be wrapped are…

Content Note: Two rows of corpses waiting to be wrapped in white cloth and two rows of corpses wrapped in white cloth. A white stake lies on each corpse. Some of the corpses are clothed and others are not. Stamp on reverse: "Passed by U. S. Army…

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 85 on the reverse.