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"Interviewing a British soldier on the treatment he received while a POW in Germany"
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Additional caption text: "Reims, France. Interviewing a British soldier on the treatment he received while a POW in Germany are L-R: Izac, Richards, Thomason, Wherry, Short, Vorys, Barkley,…
"Interviewing former political prisoner at a Nazi concentration camp in German" [Buchenwald]
Content Note: Title from caption on a separate page. Congressional committee listens to a former political prisoner at a Nazi concentration camp. Persons visible left to right: Sen. Wherry, Rep Izac, Sen Barkley, Sen Brooks, Rep Richards, and Rep…
"Liberated and PW's in Rear"
Content Note: Caption from writing on the reverse. Convoy of open-bed trucks carrying prisoners of war. Two soldiers sit at the side of the road with their backs to the camera watching the trucks.
"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…
"Lieutenant Averil, Adjutant, 1270th [Engineer Combat Battalion]"
Content Note: Caption from writing on reverse. Additional caption text: "This I took with big camera, and then blocked out most of neg to just get Lt. on this size paper." Averil is seated at a desk. Averil chose Wile to replace the 1270th's…
"Lined in rows. Total bodies here now 100" [Ohrdruf]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. A line of liberators files past a row of corpses of prisoners laid out for burial. Each corpse has a white stake laid on it. Numbered 49 on the reverse.
"Loading the trucks with the dead for burial" [Bergen-Belsen]
Content Note: Title from caption on the reverse. Photo is out-of-focus. Man stands in the back of an open truck with high sides. Corpses of prisoners appear to be piled toward the front of the truck bed. Two men are visible standing in the…
"Main entrance at Dachau"
Content Note: Title from caption on reverse. An entrance to the Dachau concentration camp. A liberator stands to the left side of the gate and another sits in a chair on the right side of the gate. Photo taken in the fall of 1945. Numbered 69 on…
"Making soup" [Gunskirchen]
Content Note: Caption written on reverse side of photograph. Survivors gather around small fires near a barrack to make soup. Numbered 17 on the reverse.
"Martyr's graves" [Ebensee]
Content Note: Caption from label on the reverse of the photograph. New graves marked with crosses. Houses are visible in the background. Numbered 28 on the reverse.