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  1. Buchenwald and Gardelegen photographs

    Consists of one leather photograph album containing photographs taken in May 1945 of the Buchenwald concentration camp, as well as signs for the Gardelegen cemetery for victims of the Gardelegen massacre. Captions are written under each photograph.

  2. Buchenwald and Natzweiler photographs

    Consists of fourteen photographs from the collection of Basil Peter Malamis, a member of the United States Army during World War II. Consists of twelve graphic photographs of corpses used for medical experimentation which were discovered at the Natzweiler concentration camp and two photographs, presumably taken by Mr. Malamis, of the crematorium at Buchenwald; these photographs are captioned.

  3. Buchenwald Aussenkommando scrip for SS Ko. Rottleberode, -.50 Reichsmark

    .50 Reichsmark Buchenwald Aussenkommando [Outside Command] coupon for SS Ko. Rottleberode concentration camp in Germany. Buchenwald opened on July 19, 1937, and issued undated notes in 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 mark denominations. The simply designed notes were printed on coarse paper. There were two types of coupons: canteen scrip and exchange scrip issued to members of outside labor brigades [Aussenkommandos.] In early April 1945, as US forces approached Buchenwald concentration camp, the German guards began to evacuate the camp. On April 11, the prisoners revolted and seized control of the camp. ...

  4. Buchenwald camp at liberation - the dead and the living

    Slate: "Capt. Carter, Prod #186, Buchenwald C-31, Date: 4-19-45" MS of a truck bed piled with bodies, clothed and unclothed. CU of a bearded man lying on the ground. His arms are crossed over his chest, his tattooed number visible on his forearm. Medium, direct shot of a truck bed of corpses. Extreme CU of corpses, slow pan over their heads and feet. Extreme CU of three heads and feet. MCU of a clothed corpse lying on a low wheeled stretcher. CU of a man's face who had apparently been beaten. A picture of Jesus is pinned to his clothing. Extreme CU of the same inmate at different angles. MS...

  5. The Buchenwald camp song papers

    The papers in this collection pertain to a competition organised by the depositor to create the best English translation of a poem originally written in German concerning life in Buchenwald concentration camp.

  6. Buchenwald canteen coupon given to a concentration camp inmate

  7. Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation

    Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany, April 17, 1945. LHSs, concentration camp area with internees and visitors walking about. MLS, soldiers entering camp area. MSs, picture of Joseph Stalin on camp building. In FG, arms are raised in Communist salute. Head-on-shot, Red Cross trucks with "Switzerland" on bumpers enter camp grounds. MLS, group of young inmates marching from the camp. Many of them wearing the striped prison uniform. MSs, CUs, two former inmates remove bodies from hand truck, place them upon a pile of bodies near building. CU, Pan, dead bodies in a long pile. ECUs, faces of ...

  8. Buchenwald concentration camp liberation photographs

    Contains three photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp at liberation. One photograph shows a concentration camp oven and two photographs show a large pile of corpses in front of a building.

  9. Buchenwald concentration camp; Hungarian Regt; von Rundstedt; Simpson and Patterson on tour

    (LIB 5963) Concentration Camp, Buchenwald, Germany, April 22, 1945. Seq: Members of the House of Representatives visit concentration camp; view piles of bodies; visit crematoria of the camp. Included in the group of visitors: Frances E. Walters, PA; Eugene Worley. TX; Carter Manasco, AL; Albert Rains, AL; Henry W. Jackson, WA; Earl Wilson, IN; Marion Bennet, MO; Gordon Canfield, NJ; Maj. Gen. Vanier of the Canadian Army; Maj Walter Mosmiller of SHAEF in charge of the tour. (LIB 5965) Hungarian Regt Surrenders, Near Cham, Germany, April 23, 1945. VS, 102nd Work Hungarian Regt with large numb...

  10. Buchenwald during and after liberation

    Mostly military scenes, group shots of soldiers, tanks and jeeps driving over bridges. CU, corpses with lime. MS, soldier (back to camera) looking into black doorway, taking picture. CU, dressed corpses, in loose pile on ground, blood on ground. WS, enormous mounds of white substance. Collapsed building, soldiers walking on top. LS tank driving over and into plane wreckage in a field. Tank driving towards camera. CU, four soldiers in tank. Refugees walking along road with oxen and big carts covered. Refugees on country path, bikes laden with belongings.

  11. Buchenwald liberation photograph

    Consists of one photograph, almost certainly of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation, of two piles of corpses.

  12. Buchenwald liberation photograph

    Consists of one photograph depicting the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The photograph, which is captioned on the verso, consists of two photographic images, one printed on the top and one printed on the bottom of the photograph. One image depicts corpses piled on a cart and the other of corpses piled in a store room.

  13. Buchenwald liberation photograph collection

    Collection of seven photographic prints taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes images of victims bodies and ashes found in the camp, inside the crematoria, and the entrance of the camp.

  14. Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Consists of seven photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes images of piles of corpses, of bone fragments, and of soldiers and survivors looking at the corpses.

  15. Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Contains photographs depicting Buchenwald following liberation.

  16. Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Contains seven photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp post-liberation; includes photographs of the entrance to the camp, gallows, corpses outside barracks, and burial preparations.

  17. Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Consists of 13 photographs taken by Jay C. Christensen, a member of the Air Corps from Elk Horn, Iowa, upon the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes photographs of survivors of the camp.

  18. Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Consists of eight photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes photographs of piles of corpses, of a gallows, and of the Buchenwald memorial. Captions in English say "Dachau" but the photographs are of Buchenwald.

  19. Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Consists of 22 photographs which were taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes photographs of piles of corpses stacked outside of the crematoria, photographs of buildings, and of a Hitler dummy hanged in effigy.

  20. Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Consists of five photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The photographs depict a pile of corpses and a pile of bones behind a gallows. The photographs are from the collection of Emmet Stevens, who was a member of the United States Army.