Report and photographs relating to post-liberation Buchenwald
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Donald Luby
Biographical History
Major Donald Luby, a veteran of an unidentified US Army unit, allegedly visited Buchenwald on 18 Apr. 1945. He was likely from Galveston, Texas.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
According to the heading of the anonymous report, it was written "somewhere in Germany" on 18 Apr. 1945. Major Donald Luby, who according to the report, was a member of the reconnaissance group whose mission is described in the report, gave a copy to Selma Faver, an Army nurse. She in turn provided a photocopy to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum at an unknown date. Supposedly, Major Luby also took the photographs in the collection on the same day.
Scope and Content
Contains information about the experiences of Major Donald Luby and others in a reconnaissance group that visited Buchenwald, including a photocopied report dated Apr. 18, 1945 concerning the post-liberation situation on the camp. Also includes photocopies of photographs, including one showing what appears to be an African-American soldier standing in front of a cart full of corpses. The photographs also contain scenes from Dachau and Ohrdruf camps.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
People
- Luby, Donald.
Corporate Bodies
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Ohrdruf (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--African Americans.
- African American soldiers.
- Concentration camps.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Atrocities.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.