Horace S. Berry collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn521120
• English
• overall: Height: 9.875 inches (25.083 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Watercolor created by Norman Nichols on VE Day, May 8, 1945, in Lambach, Austria, and given to Captain Horace S. Berry, both soldiers in the 71st Infantry Division, US Army. It depicts dead inmates from recently liberated Gunskirchen concentration camp being arranged prior to burial in mass graves. Kneeling among the corpses is a boy who, explained the artist, "sat most of the day staring at the body of his brother, sobbing quietly and begging the Germans to give him a decent burial in an individual grave." US forces made the German guards collect and bury the dead. Nichols was a soldier in...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn521121
• English
• 1979
• Updated 7 months ago

Reprint of a pamphlet on the liberation of Gunskirchen concentration camp owned by Captain Horace S. Berry, a member of the liberating 71st Infantry Division, US Army. The pamphlet was originally published in 1945 by the men of the 71st and describes Gunskirchen, a subcamp of Mauthausen, in Austria upon liberation by the unit on May 4, 1945. Berry, then 25, was captain of "K" Company, 71st. Infantry. Berry also donated an original watercolor by Private Norman Nichols, painted in VE Day and used as an illustration in the pamphlet, see record 1988.8.1.