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Child survivors walking out of the Auschwitz children's barracks, soon after liberation 1945.
Credit: United States Holocaust memorial museum website
Credit: United States Holocaust memorial museum website
Dachau survivors greet the American liberators
~ Young and old survivors in Dachau cheer approaching U.S. troops.
~ Among those pictured are Juda Kukiela (middle), Tevya Grojs (second from the right), David Moszkowicz (fourth from the left), Szmulek Rozental (third from the left) and Gyorgy Laszlo Spiegel (second from the left).
Date: Sunday, April 29, 1945
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz Dokumentationsarchiv des Oesterreichischen Widerstandes Federation Nationale des Deportes et Internes Resistants et Patriotes KZ Gedenkstaette Dachau
Copyright: Public Domain
[Photograph #45075] USHMM Photo Archives
~ Among those pictured are Juda Kukiela (middle), Tevya Grojs (second from the right), David Moszkowicz (fourth from the left), Szmulek Rozental (third from the left) and Gyorgy Laszlo Spiegel (second from the left).
Date: Sunday, April 29, 1945
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz Dokumentationsarchiv des Oesterreichischen Widerstandes Federation Nationale des Deportes et Internes Resistants et Patriotes KZ Gedenkstaette Dachau
Copyright: Public Domain
[Photograph #45075] USHMM Photo Archives
~ Polish prisoners in Dachau toast their liberation from the camp.
Date: Sunday, April 29, 1945 - Tuesday, May 01, 1945
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Copyright: Public Domain
[Photograph #83818] USHMM Photo Archives
Date: Sunday, April 29, 1945 - Tuesday, May 01, 1945
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Copyright: Public Domain
[Photograph #83818] USHMM Photo Archives
~Liberated female prisoners at Dachau wave to their liberators.
Date: Sunday, April 29, 1945 Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany Photographer: Arland B. Musser
Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park Museum of Jewish Heritage/Center For Holocaust Studies United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Arnold Bauer Barach Werner Conn Stuart McKeever
Copyright: Public Domain
[Photograph #19291] USHMM Photo Archives
Date: Sunday, April 29, 1945 Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany Photographer: Arland B. Musser
Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park Museum of Jewish Heritage/Center For Holocaust Studies United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Arnold Bauer Barach Werner Conn Stuart McKeever
Copyright: Public Domain
[Photograph #19291] USHMM Photo Archives
~ Survivors fight for cigarettes thrown to them by American troops after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp.
The original caption reads:
"Dachau Concentration Camp
Horrors worse than those found in the German concentration camps of Buchenwald and Belsen were discovered in the stinking hell-hole of Dachau, captured by troops of the 42nd and 45th Infantry Division of the Seventh U. S. Army April 30,1945. More than 32,000 prisoners were liberated, among them some Englishmen, Canadians, and Americans. The camp was formally surrendered by an SS lieutenant carrying a white flag, accompanied by a Swiss Red Cross official, but SS troops opened fire as American troops approached the main entrance. The Germans were shot down. Three prisoners were electrocuted when they tried to burst through the electrified wire barrier to welcome the Americans. SS guards opened fire on other prisoners who went wild with joy and rushed to meet the liberating troops.
Prisoners with access to records said 9,000 people died of hunger, disease or shooting within the past three months at Dachau. Four thousand more perished during cold winter months. When Americans entered the camp, they found 50 open railway cars standing on a siding, apparently full fo dirty clothing but actually found to contain hundreds of corpses piled on top of each other. They also found a row of kennels where fierce dogs were kept to set after escaping men. They discovered gas extermination chambers, incinerators full of naked bodies, bodies marked for dissection and the bodies of several small children.
The original caption reads:
"Dachau Concentration Camp
Horrors worse than those found in the German concentration camps of Buchenwald and Belsen were discovered in the stinking hell-hole of Dachau, captured by troops of the 42nd and 45th Infantry Division of the Seventh U. S. Army April 30,1945. More than 32,000 prisoners were liberated, among them some Englishmen, Canadians, and Americans. The camp was formally surrendered by an SS lieutenant carrying a white flag, accompanied by a Swiss Red Cross official, but SS troops opened fire as American troops approached the main entrance. The Germans were shot down. Three prisoners were electrocuted when they tried to burst through the electrified wire barrier to welcome the Americans. SS guards opened fire on other prisoners who went wild with joy and rushed to meet the liberating troops.
Prisoners with access to records said 9,000 people died of hunger, disease or shooting within the past three months at Dachau. Four thousand more perished during cold winter months. When Americans entered the camp, they found 50 open railway cars standing on a siding, apparently full fo dirty clothing but actually found to contain hundreds of corpses piled on top of each other. They also found a row of kennels where fierce dogs were kept to set after escaping men. They discovered gas extermination chambers, incinerators full of naked bodies, bodies marked for dissection and the bodies of several small children.
~ Survivors in an unidentified camp [possibly Ebensee] soon after liberation.
Date: 1945
Locale: Ebensee, Austria
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Wayne Larabee
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #42513] USHMM Photo Archives
Date: 1945
Locale: Ebensee, Austria
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Wayne Larabee
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #42513] USHMM Photo Archives
~ Mauthausen survivors greet American soldiers as they enter the gates of the concentration camp.
Date: Saturday, May 05, 1945 - Monday, May 07, 1945
Locale: Mauthausen, [Upper Austria] Austria
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Col. P. Richard Seibel
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #74459] USHMM Photo Archives
Date: Saturday, May 05, 1945 - Monday, May 07, 1945
Locale: Mauthausen, [Upper Austria] Austria
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Col. P. Richard Seibel
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #74459] USHMM Photo Archives
~ Two survivors rest against the side of a barrack following liberation at Buchenwald.
The original caption reads:
"Free at last."
Date: Sunday, April 01, 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Jamie Blei
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #56366] USHMM Photo Archives
The original caption reads:
"Free at last."
Date: Sunday, April 01, 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Jamie Blei
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #56366] USHMM Photo Archives
~ Two survivors stand outside a barrack in the Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after liberation.
~ Glenn Runyon, US Army Corporal, was a member of the 465th Engineer Company. His company visited Buchenwald for a few hours after its liberation.
Date: around Wednesday, April 11, 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Glenn Runyan
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #85280] USHMM Photo Archives
~ Glenn Runyon, US Army Corporal, was a member of the 465th Engineer Company. His company visited Buchenwald for a few hours after its liberation.
Date: around Wednesday, April 11, 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Glenn Runyan
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #85280] USHMM Photo Archives
~ An emaciated Russian survivor stares into the camera after his liberation at Buchenwald.
~ Colonel Frank E Stinchfield, MD served as a physician in the liberating forces medical team stationed at Buchenwald.
Date: Friday, April 06, 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Lee T. Stinchfield
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #62781] USHMM Photo Archives
~ Colonel Frank E Stinchfield, MD served as a physician in the liberating forces medical team stationed at Buchenwald.
Date: Friday, April 06, 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Lee T. Stinchfield
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #62781] USHMM Photo Archives
~ A healthy man in a cap cares for an extremely emaciated survivor with a shaved stripe on his head.
Date: 1945
Locale: Unknown Locale
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of David Mendels
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #66704] USHMM Photo Archives
Date: 1945
Locale: Unknown Locale
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of David Mendels
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #66704] USHMM Photo Archives
~ Survivors take down the Nazi eagle that hangs above the entrance to the SS compound in Mauthausen on the day of liberation.
~ The white car belongs to the Red Cross. A Red Cross representative and two German SS officers arrived at the camp in this car to surrender Mauthausen to the U.S. Army.
Date: Saturday, May 05, 1945 - Monday, May 07, 1945
Locale: Mauthausen, [Upper Austria] Austria
Photographer: Harry Saunders
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Harry Saunders
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #07765] USHMM Photo Archives
~ The white car belongs to the Red Cross. A Red Cross representative and two German SS officers arrived at the camp in this car to surrender Mauthausen to the U.S. Army.
Date: Saturday, May 05, 1945 - Monday, May 07, 1945
Locale: Mauthausen, [Upper Austria] Austria
Photographer: Harry Saunders
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Harry Saunders
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #07765] USHMM Photo Archives
~ Survivors in Dachau distribute bread to their comrades after liberation.
Date: Tuesday, May 01, 1945
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Frank Manucci Merle Spiegel
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #07974] USHMM Photo Archives
Date: Tuesday, May 01, 1945
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Frank Manucci Merle Spiegel
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #07974] USHMM Photo Archives
~ Two survivors prepare food outside the barracks. The man on the right, presumably, is Jean (Johnny) Voste, born in Belgian Congo, who was the only black prisoner in Dachau.
Date: Tuesday, May 01, 1945
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Dallas Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Frank Manucci Merle Spiegel
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #74095] USHMM Photo Archives
Date: Tuesday, May 01, 1945
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Dallas Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Frank Manucci Merle Spiegel
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #74095] USHMM Photo Archives
~ A survivor in Dachau on the day of liberation.
Date: Sunday, April 29, 1945
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Photographer: Sidney BlauCredit:National Archives and Records Administration, College Park KZ Gedenkstaette Dachau United Nations Archives and Records Management Section United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Yad Vashem Photo Archives, courtesy of Stuart McKeever
Copyright: Public Domain
[Photograph #83834] USHMM Photo Archives
Date: Sunday, April 29, 1945
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Photographer: Sidney BlauCredit:National Archives and Records Administration, College Park KZ Gedenkstaette Dachau United Nations Archives and Records Management Section United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Yad Vashem Photo Archives, courtesy of Stuart McKeever
Copyright: Public Domain
[Photograph #83834] USHMM Photo Archives
~ View of Dachau concentration camp prisoners cheering on their liberators.
This photo shows: These political prisoners of the Germans were scheduled to be murdered by their Nazi guards but were saved by troops of the 42nd "Rainbow" Division. They secretly made flags of Allied nations as they heard the guns of the advancing liberators getting louder and louder. Keystone Photo"
Date: Monday, April 30, 1945
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Joseph Eaton
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #55315] USHMM Photo Archives
This photo shows: These political prisoners of the Germans were scheduled to be murdered by their Nazi guards but were saved by troops of the 42nd "Rainbow" Division. They secretly made flags of Allied nations as they heard the guns of the advancing liberators getting louder and louder. Keystone Photo"
Date: Monday, April 30, 1945
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Joseph Eaton
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #55315] USHMM Photo Archives
~ US soldiers examine a pile of shoes that had belonged to prisoners stacked against a wall in the Flossenbuerg concentration camp.
The original caption reads:
"When troops of the 90th Infantry division, Third U.S. Army, captured Floss, Germany, six miles from the Czechoslovakian border, another Nazi concentration camp passed out of existence. The camp, fenced off with electrical barbed wire, contained 16,000 sick and starved inmates, including 400 cases of typhus. Originally, the enclosure confined 60,000 political prisoners and military prisoners-of-war of all nations. It was estimated that 1,400 a month died of starvation after which their remains were burned by Nazi guards. Before the Germans fled to rear areas all inmates able to walk. These pictures were taken April 24, 1945, after entry of American forces into the town."
Date:Tuesday, April 24, 1945
Locale:Flossenbuerg, Germany
Credit:United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Joseph Eaton
Copyright:United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #51025] USHMM Photo Archives
The original caption reads:
"When troops of the 90th Infantry division, Third U.S. Army, captured Floss, Germany, six miles from the Czechoslovakian border, another Nazi concentration camp passed out of existence. The camp, fenced off with electrical barbed wire, contained 16,000 sick and starved inmates, including 400 cases of typhus. Originally, the enclosure confined 60,000 political prisoners and military prisoners-of-war of all nations. It was estimated that 1,400 a month died of starvation after which their remains were burned by Nazi guards. Before the Germans fled to rear areas all inmates able to walk. These pictures were taken April 24, 1945, after entry of American forces into the town."
Date:Tuesday, April 24, 1945
Locale:Flossenbuerg, Germany
Credit:United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Joseph Eaton
Copyright:United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #51025] USHMM Photo Archives
~ Four survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Date: Sunday, April 01, 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of David Cohen
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #50713] USHMM Photo Archives
Date: Sunday, April 01, 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of David Cohen
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #50713] USHMM Photo Archives
~ A survivor of Buchenwald has just died after liberation from "starvation and disease and was being carried to the incinerator on a bench."
~ Colonel Frank E Stinchfield, MD served as a physician in the liberating forces medical team stationed at Buchenwald.
Date: Monday, April 16, 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Lee T. Stinchfield
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #62785] USHMM Photo Archives
~ Colonel Frank E Stinchfield, MD served as a physician in the liberating forces medical team stationed at Buchenwald.
Date: Monday, April 16, 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Lee T. Stinchfield
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #62785] USHMM Photo Archives
~ A survivor stands next to the Dachau moat and looks down on the corpses of killed SS men floating in it.
Date: Sunday, April 29, 1945
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of John and Patricia Heelan
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #31341] USHMM Photo Archives
Date: Sunday, April 29, 1945
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of John and Patricia Heelan
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #31341] USHMM Photo Archives
~ Journalists, accompanied by American military police, conduct an inspection tour of the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp.
Date:Wednesday, April 25, 1945
Locale:Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit:National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Copyright:Public Domain
[Photograph #23646] USHMM Photo Archives
Date:Wednesday, April 25, 1945
Locale:Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit:National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Copyright:Public Domain
[Photograph #23646] USHMM Photo Archives
~ Survivors congregate next to the barbed wire fence surrounding the Dachau concentration camp.
Date: Sunday, April 01, 1945
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of William and Dorothy McLaughlin
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #75039] USHMM Photo Archives
Date: Sunday, April 01, 1945
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of William and Dorothy McLaughlin
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #75039] USHMM Photo Archives
~ German civilians remove the bodies of former prisoners at the Ebensee concentration camp.
Date: Tuesday, May 01, 1945
Locale: Ebensee, Austria
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Lillian Pressman
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #48972] USHMM Photo Archives
Date: Tuesday, May 01, 1945
Locale: Ebensee, Austria
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Lillian Pressman
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #48972] USHMM Photo Archives
~ View of victims' bodies lying in front of a destroyed building in the Nordhausen concentration camp.
Date: Tuesday, March 27, 1945 - Sunday, April 01, 1945
Locale: Nordhausen, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of G. Michael Jaynes
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #62452] USHMM Photo Archives
Date: Tuesday, March 27, 1945 - Sunday, April 01, 1945
Locale: Nordhausen, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of G. Michael Jaynes
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #62452] USHMM Photo Archives
~ View of a cart laden with the bodies of prisoners who perished in the Gusen concentration camp.
Date: Saturday, May 05, 1945 - Saturday, May 12, 1945
Locale: Gusen, [Upper Austria] Austria
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Benjamin Ferencz
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum[Photograph #41614] USHMM Photo Archives
Date: Saturday, May 05, 1945 - Saturday, May 12, 1945
Locale: Gusen, [Upper Austria] Austria
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Benjamin Ferencz
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum[Photograph #41614] USHMM Photo Archives
~ US soldiers confront the corpses of prisoners killed in Ohrdruf shortly before the camp's liberation.
Date: Wednesday, April 04, 1945
Locale: Ohrdruf, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Roy Rodriquez
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #49382] USHMM Photo Archives
Date: Wednesday, April 04, 1945
Locale: Ohrdruf, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Roy Rodriquez
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #49382] USHMM Photo Archives
~ The American flag flying at half mast in Buchenwald.
Date: Thursday, April 19, 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Robert Pettit
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #23060] USHMM Photo Archives
Date: Thursday, April 19, 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Robert Pettit
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #23060] USHMM Photo Archives
~ Two American soldiers look at the piles of bodies stacked up behind the crematorium in Buchenwald.
Date: Saturday, April 14, 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Norman M. Faye
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #04510] USHMM Photo Archives
Date: Saturday, April 14, 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Norman M. Faye
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #04510] USHMM Photo Archives
~ American soldiers view the bodies of prisoners shot by the SS during the evacuation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp.
Date: Wednesday, April 04, 1945 - Tuesday, April 10, 1945
Locale: Ohrdruf, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Milton Schloss
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #12086] USHMM Photo Archives
Date: Wednesday, April 04, 1945 - Tuesday, April 10, 1945
Locale: Ohrdruf, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Milton Schloss
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #12086] USHMM Photo Archives
~ Survivors in a barracks enjoy bowls of soup given to them by the U.S. Army after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Date: Wednesday, April 11, 1945 - Friday, April 20, 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Max Esper Rebecca Tran
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum[Photograph #12074] USHMM Photo Archives
Date: Wednesday, April 11, 1945 - Friday, April 20, 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Max Esper Rebecca Tran
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum[Photograph #12074] USHMM Photo Archives
~ A survivor helps a comrade who is too weak to climb out of his bunk by himself in the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp.
Date: Wednesday, April 11, 1945 - Tuesday, May 01, 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Robert A. Schmuhl
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #13150] USHMM Photo Archives
Date: Wednesday, April 11, 1945 - Tuesday, May 01, 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Robert A. Schmuhl
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #13150] USHMM Photo Archives
~ View of the main gate at the Ebensee concentration camp. The sign just beyond it reads: "The French prisoners salute the Allies."
Date: Sunday, May 06, 1945 - Wednesday, May 30, 1945
Locale: Ebensee, Austria
Photographer: Dr. William McDermott
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Dr. William McDermott
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #10357] USHMM Photo Archives
Date: Sunday, May 06, 1945 - Wednesday, May 30, 1945
Locale: Ebensee, Austria
Photographer: Dr. William McDermott
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Dr. William McDermott
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #10357] USHMM Photo Archives
~ Bales of the hair of female prisoners found in the warehouses of Auschwitz at the liberation.
Date: 1945
Locale: Auschwitz, [Upper Silesia] Poland
Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Copyright: Public Domain
[Photograph #85742] USHMM Photo Aechives
Date: 1945
Locale: Auschwitz, [Upper Silesia] Poland
Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Copyright: Public Domain
[Photograph #85742] USHMM Photo Aechives
~ A survivor shows American troops of the 46th Armored Division, U.S. Ninth Army, the watch towers and the electrically charged barbed wire fence in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Date: Sunday, May 27, 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Copyright: Public Domain
[Photograph #77810] USHMM Photo Archives
Date: Sunday, May 27, 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Copyright: Public Domain
[Photograph #77810] USHMM Photo Archives
~ Two U.S. Army medics stand near mass graves in the Ohrdruf concentration camp.
Date: Wednesday, April 04, 1945 - Monday, April 30, 1945
Locale: Ohrdruf, [Thuringia] Germany Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Copyright: Public Domain
Date: Wednesday, April 04, 1945 - Monday, April 30, 1945
Locale: Ohrdruf, [Thuringia] Germany Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Copyright: Public Domain
~ Polish prisoners reenact how Nazi guards shot prisoners into an open trench.
The original caption reads:
"The Polish laborer kneeling showing the position prisoners took while a guard went along behind and shot them in the head. The duck-board covered trench could hold about 50 men at a time."
Date: Saturday, May 05, 1945
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Clarence E. Alberg Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #98120] USHMM Photo Archives
The original caption reads:
"The Polish laborer kneeling showing the position prisoners took while a guard went along behind and shot them in the head. The duck-board covered trench could hold about 50 men at a time."
Date: Saturday, May 05, 1945
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Clarence E. Alberg Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #98120] USHMM Photo Archives
~ View of a train of military vehicles parked next to the moat of the Dachau concentration camp.
The original caption reads:
"Armored train inside the Dachau camp."
Date: Saturday, May 05, 1945
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Clarence E. Alberg Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #98122] USHMM Photo Archives
The original caption reads:
"Armored train inside the Dachau camp."
Date: Saturday, May 05, 1945
Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Clarence E. Alberg Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #98122] USHMM Photo Archives
~ German women are forced to march through a corpse filled barracks of the Woebbelin concentration camp.
Date: Tuesday, May 01, 1945
Locale: Woebbelin, [Mecklenburg] Germany Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Laszlo Berkowits Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #51754] USHMM Photo Archives
Date: Tuesday, May 01, 1945
Locale: Woebbelin, [Mecklenburg] Germany Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Laszlo Berkowits Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #51754] USHMM Photo Archives
~ An American soldier inspects rail cars filled with wrecked V-2s which were brought from the underground factory to nearby Kleinbodugen. Before evacuating in the path of the First U.S Army advance, Nazi officials removed and destroyed as machinery as possible.
The original caption reads:
"Nazi weapons of death made by dying slaves is the grim story of Nordhausen , Reich center for V-bomb production which was captured by troops of the First U. S. Army April 10, 1945. Hundreds of dead and dying lay in the same beds in a nearby slave camp where, according to the liberated, 9,000 lost their lives in 1944. The American officer in charge immediately ordered the leading citizens of Nordhausen to bury the rotting and skeleton-like dead, choosing a burial site on a hillside overlooking the V-bomb factory where the slave workers had been already murdered. The factory, assembly plants for V-1 and V-2 weapons , was a series of deep underground tunnels. Three main tunnels were connected with 42 smaller ones. Until May, 1944, workers were never allowed outside. When the slaves, who labored in 18-hour shifts, became too weak to work, they were loaded into box cars and never seen again."
Date: Tuesday, April 10, 1945
Locale: Nordhausen, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Joseph Eaton
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #49995] USHMM Photo Archives
The original caption reads:
"Nazi weapons of death made by dying slaves is the grim story of Nordhausen , Reich center for V-bomb production which was captured by troops of the First U. S. Army April 10, 1945. Hundreds of dead and dying lay in the same beds in a nearby slave camp where, according to the liberated, 9,000 lost their lives in 1944. The American officer in charge immediately ordered the leading citizens of Nordhausen to bury the rotting and skeleton-like dead, choosing a burial site on a hillside overlooking the V-bomb factory where the slave workers had been already murdered. The factory, assembly plants for V-1 and V-2 weapons , was a series of deep underground tunnels. Three main tunnels were connected with 42 smaller ones. Until May, 1944, workers were never allowed outside. When the slaves, who labored in 18-hour shifts, became too weak to work, they were loaded into box cars and never seen again."
Date: Tuesday, April 10, 1945
Locale: Nordhausen, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Joseph Eaton
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #49995] USHMM Photo Archives
~ Recently liberated American POWs wave as they leave their camp.
The original caption reads:
"American prisoners of war, recently liberated by a combat command of the US Fifth Armored Division, wave as a truck takes them from Tangermunde, Germany, where they were held to the rear. The soldier, second from the right seated in the back end of the truck takes a captured German sword with him."
Date: 1945
Locale: Tangermunde, [Saxony-Anhalt] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Joseph Eaton
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #51166] USHMM Photo Archives
The original caption reads:
"American prisoners of war, recently liberated by a combat command of the US Fifth Armored Division, wave as a truck takes them from Tangermunde, Germany, where they were held to the rear. The soldier, second from the right seated in the back end of the truck takes a captured German sword with him."
Date: 1945
Locale: Tangermunde, [Saxony-Anhalt] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Joseph Eaton
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #51166] USHMM Photo Archives
~ British soldiers walk past a cremation oven after the destruction and liberation of Bergen-Belsen.
Date: 1945
Locale: Bergen-Belsen, [Prussian Hanover; Lower Saxony] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Gerard LaBossiere
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #44595] USHMM Photo Archives
Date: 1945
Locale: Bergen-Belsen, [Prussian Hanover; Lower Saxony] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Gerard LaBossiere
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #44595] USHMM Photo Archives
~ Ohrdruf survivors reenact torture scenes while an American soldier looks on.
The original caption reads:
"The whipping device where a person was held and beat over the back with small timber."
Date:Sunday, April 15, 1945 Locale:Ohrdruf, [Thuringia] Germany Credit:United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Lee T. Stinchfield Copyright:United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The original caption reads:
"The whipping device where a person was held and beat over the back with small timber."
Date:Sunday, April 15, 1945 Locale:Ohrdruf, [Thuringia] Germany Credit:United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Lee T. Stinchfield Copyright:United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
~ Young survivor of Buchenwald poses with a soldier.
Date: Sunday, April 01, 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Dan Lencher
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Date: Sunday, April 01, 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Dan Lencher
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
~ View of a large pile of victims' shoes piled up outside barracks in the Dachau concentration camp.
Date: Tuesday, May 01, 1945 Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Dana Upton
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Date: Tuesday, May 01, 1945 Locale: Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Dana Upton
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
~ High-ranking U.S. Army officers inspect the newly liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp.
~ Among those pictured are: Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower, George Patton and Omar Bradley. Also pictured is Jules Grad, correspondent for the U.S. Army newspaper, "Stars and Stripes" (at the far right).
Date: Thursday, April 12, 1945
Locale: Ohrdruf, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Felice Grad
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #64084] USHMM Photo Archives
~ Among those pictured are: Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower, George Patton and Omar Bradley. Also pictured is Jules Grad, correspondent for the U.S. Army newspaper, "Stars and Stripes" (at the far right).
Date: Thursday, April 12, 1945
Locale: Ohrdruf, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Felice Grad
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #64084] USHMM Photo Archives
~ Jewish youth liberated at Buchenwald lean out the windows of a train, as it pulls away from the station.
~ The train, which has been marked with the phrase "Hilter kaput" [Hitler is finished], will transport the children to an OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants) home in Ecouis, France
Date: Friday, June 01, 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Robert Waisman Willy Fogel
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #26149] USHMM Photo Archives
~ The train, which has been marked with the phrase "Hilter kaput" [Hitler is finished], will transport the children to an OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants) home in Ecouis, France
Date: Friday, June 01, 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Robert Waisman Willy Fogel
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
[Photograph #26149] USHMM Photo Archives
~ Women survivors in the womens' camp in Woebbelin hold an orange given to them by an American soldier.
Date: Friday, May 04, 1945 - Saturday, May 05, 1945
Locale: Woebbelin, [Mecklenburg] Germany Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Dr. Alfred B. Sundquist Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum[Photograph #09276A] USHMM Photo Archives
Date: Friday, May 04, 1945 - Saturday, May 05, 1945
Locale: Woebbelin, [Mecklenburg] Germany Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Dr. Alfred B. Sundquist Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum[Photograph #09276A] USHMM Photo Archives
~ A group of Jewish children wave goodbye as they depart by train from the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Date: Tuesday, June 05, 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park Copyright: Public Domain
[Photograph #06499] USHMM Photo Archives
Date: Tuesday, June 05, 1945
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park Copyright: Public Domain
[Photograph #06499] USHMM Photo Archives