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RG-09.01, Gardelegen Massacre

RG-09.02, Mauthausen Collection

RG-09.03, Majdanek Collection

RG-09.04, Ravensbruck Collection

RG-09.05, Dachau Collection

RG-09.06, Gusen Collection

RG-09.07, Liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp

RG-09.08, Dora-Nordhausen Collection

RG-09.09, Landsberg Collection

RG-09.10, Zeymour Herman Collection

RG-09.11, Various post-liberation photographs

RG-09.12, Kurt Wittler Collection

RG-09.13, Documentary from the USHMM, Nazi atrocities by the War Department, narrated

RG-09.15, Anthony Hinds Collection



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Title: Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps and Camp Site Memorials, 1944-ca.1970sAdd to your cart.View associated digital content.

Predominant Dates:1945

ID: RG-09/RG-09

Primary Creator: United States. Army. Signal Corps

Extent: 0.0

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The arrangement scheme for the record group was imposed during processing in the absence of an original order. Materials are arranged by subject/donor, then by identifier, as assigned by the processor.

Record group is comprised of thirteen collections and two items, the collections of which are: 1. Collection on the Gardelegen massacre; 2. Collection on the liberation of Mauthausen; 3. Collection on the liberation of Majdanek concentration camp; 4. Collection on the liberation of Ravensbrück concentration camp; 5. Collection on the liberation of Dachau concentration camp; 6. Collection on the liberation of Gusen concentration camp; 7. Collection on the liberation of Buchenwald; 8. Collections on the liberation of Dora-Nordhausen concentration camp; 9. Collection on the liberation of Landsberg concentration camp; 10. Zeymour Herman collection; 11. Photographs of post-liberation of concentration camps; 12. Kurt Wittler collection; 13. Anthony Hinds collection.

Subjects: Allied discovery of Nazi war crimes, evidences of the crimes of National Socialist regime, liberation of Nazi concentration camps, Europe

Languages: German, Polish, English

Abstract

This record groups deal with multiple evidences of Nazi crimes committed in concentration camps in Germany and in German-occupied and controlled territories. In the wake of the liberation, the Allied military personnel photographed the campsite, abandoned by the German camp personnel.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This record group contains photo-documents and narratives produced by the personnel of the Allied armed forces in the aftermath of liberation of the German concentration camps in Europe. Additionally, there is a collection of postwar publications and brochures on museums and memorials at the sites of former camps.

Materials in this record group include photographs, reprints of original photographs, and publications about the camp memorials. Photographs are digitized.

Collection Historical Note

Photography at the liberated camps began spontaneously. Allied military personnel largely experienced a shock after being exposed to the evidence of Nazi crimes. Initially, they instantly took photographs for themselves. The US Army Command decided to organize the process of photographing the remaining traces of Nazi crimes. This task was entrusted to the Signal Corps of the American armed forces in Germany and Austria. An order followed to circulate these sets of photographs, depicting the crimes of National Socialism, among the American units stationed in Germany, Austria and France. After the end of the war, American Military Government in Germany started publishing newspapers for the German population, which also published these photo-documents depicting the Nazi crimes against prisoners of the concentration camps.

RG-09.01, Gardelegen Massacre Collection: On 13th April 1945, the SS massacred 1016 religious, political, and military prisoners from the Nordhausen, Rottleberode, Wiede, and Ilfeld concentration camps. They burned them in the barn. Only seven of them survived. They were discovered by the U.S. Army 102nd Infantry Division’s 405th Regiment 2nd Battalion on 15th April 1945. Vern Ecklund, Army Signal Corps photographer, documented the site of massacre. 

RG-09.01.01, Nine photographs, Gardelegen Massacre, Copies of the originals made by the soldiers of the 102nd Infantry Division of the US Armed Forces

RG-09.01.02, Sixteen original photographs, some are clearly of the massacre at Gardelegen. Several photographs represent crematories and other scenes. Two have handwritten comments on the back, one identifying a corpse as that of an SS guard who tried to escape and the other of German civilians forced to bury corpses by the US military

RG-09.01.03, Photograph, Massacre at Gardelegen. Cut from a book with a German caption. Photograph portrays corpses at the door of the barn, one apparently having struggled to escape the burning barn

RG-09.01.04, Handwritten letter by Vern Ecklund, Army Signal Corps photographer, the US 102nd Infantry Division’s 405th Regiment, 2nd Battalion. The massacre scene was discovered by these soldiers on 15th April 1945. The letter asserts that bodies were still burning when he saw them. Copy from the original

RG-09.02, Liberation of Mauthausen, Collection of Photographs

RG-09.02.01, Six photographs (copies) taken in the aftermath of liberation at the Mauthausen concentration camp. The pictures were taken by the soldiers of the 328th Infantry Regiment of the US Armed Forces

RG-09.02.02, Photograph, Mauthausen, in the aftermath of the liberation, 1 May 1945. Caption on the reverse side reads: “May 1 ’45 – Mauthausen, Austria – We freed this camp a few days before the War was over – some of these are dead – some not yet”; Provenance: Gary Smith, 1512 English Drive, San Jose, CA 95129; tel. 408 725-0320; 1-888-741-5824

RG-09.02.03, Photograph, Mauthausen after liberation, a row of dead bodies

RG-09.03, Liberation of Majdanek, Collection of photographs (original photographs taken in July 1944)

RG-09.03.01, Two photographs depicting a mass grave in Majdanek concentration camp. One photograph shows the entire trench, the other is a close up on the dead bodies

RG-09.03.02, Photograph, Hanging on the site of the Majdanek concentration camp, apparently an execution of the Nazi collaborators after liberation

RG-09.03.03, Four emaciated female survivors of the Majdanek concentration camp. Camera depicts them from the back

RG-09.03.04, Photograph, Majdanek after liberation, a pile of corpses

RG-09.03.05, Photograph, Majdanek after liberation, Soviet soldiers examine the dead prisoners

RG-09.03.06, Photograph, Majdanek, a dead prisoner on the barbed wire

RG-09.03.07, Photograph, Majdanek, an emaciated female survivor, camera depicts her from the back

RG-09.03.08, Photograph, Majdanek, emaciated male survivors, depicted naked

RG-09.04, Liberation of Ravensbrück concentration camp

RG-09.04.01, Three photographs depicting: the crematoria, the execution passage, and the inside view of the prison with cells

RG-09.04.02, A photograph depicting a transport from the Ravensbrück concentration camp to Auschwitz

RG-09.05, Dachau concentration camp

RG-09.05.01, Photographs depicting a view of the former Dachau concentration camp as of 6 August 1945. The caption on the back states that the camp was an incarceration center for the prisoners of the SS

RG-09.05.01A, Photographs, Dachau in the aftermath of liberation, crime scenes, page one

RG-09.05.01B, Photographs, Dachau in the aftermath of liberation, crime scenes, page two

RG-09.05.01C, Photograph, Dachau in the aftermath of liberation, crime scenes, page three

RG-09.05.02, This sub-collection contains 20 photographs depicting Dachau Memorial Camp-Site in 1947. On the photographs one can see camp installations, execution sites, and devices of tortures. The latter are replicated as models

RG-09.05.02A, Dachau Memorial Site, page one

RG-09.05.02B, Dachau Memorial Site, page two

RG-09.05.02C, Dachau Memorial Site, page three

RG-09.05.02D, Dachau Memorial Site, page four

RG-09.05.02E, Dachau Memorial Site, page five

RG-09.05.03, Liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp; It is regarded that 12 photographs taken in April 1945 depict the crime scenes seen by the liberators of Dachau concentration camp. Ultimate identification is pending

RG-09.05.04, A stone from Dachau. Associated with the prisoner No. 52877

RG-09.05.05, A view of the former Dachau concentration camp in August 1945. Then the camp became an incarceration center for the SS prisoners

RG-09.06, Liberation of Gusen Concentration Camp

RG-09.06.01, Collection of photographs taken by the US soldiers in May 1945 after the camp was liberated. This collection contains 23 photographs depicting the Gusen concentration camp in the aftermath of liberation. Three photographs are unrelated to the camp theme: two of them depict the US soldiers embarking on an ocean ship, and one photograph, presumably, shows a street view of an Austrian town

RG-09.06.01A, Photographs, Gusen concentration camp in the aftermath of the liberation, page one

RG-09.06.01B, Photographs, Gusen concentration camp in the aftermath of the liberation, page two

RG-09.06.01C, Photographs, Gusen concentration camp in the aftermath of the liberation, page three

RG-09.06.01D, Photographs, Gusen concentration camp in the aftermath of the liberation, page four

RG-09.06.01E, Photographs, Gusen concentration camp in the aftermath of the liberation, page five

RG-09.07, Liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp; Approximately 21,000 victims of the Nazi regime were liberated when troops of the Third U.S. Army seized the camp on April 13, 1945. It is estimated that in the previous 10 years more than 70,000 opponents to National Socialism had been starved and murdered in this camp

RG-09.07.01, Collection of photographs depicting post-liberation scenes and activities in the former Buchenwald concentration camp. This collection consists of 12 photographs that are copies from the originals

RG-09.07.01.01, Buchenwald, a pile of corpses in a room with a tiled floor with a drain

RG-09.07.01.02, Buchenwald, crematory with skeletons in the foreground

RG-09.07.01.03, Buchenwald, eight inmates displaying wounds on their feet

RG-09.07.01.04, Buchenwald, flatbed truck piled high with corpses, surrounded by US military personnel

RG-09.07.01.05, Buchenwald, flatbed double axle trailer piled high with corpses

RG-09.07.01.06, Buchenwald, flatbed truck piled high with corpses, close up to the heads

RG-09.07.01.07, Buchenwald, flatbed truck piled with corpses, two US solders standing aside

RG-09.07.01.08, Buchenwald, flatbed truck piled with corpses, German civilians are forced to watch on

RG-09.07.01.09, Buchenwald, ledger book with names of registered prisoners

RG-09.07.01.10, Buchenwald after liberation, men place corpses on the cart

RG-09.07.01.11, Buchenwald, two men examine a pile of corpses near the building

RG-09.07.01.12, Buchenwald, US troops are in the foreground, the camp barracks are in the background

RG-09.07.01.13, Buchenwald Camp, British Parliamentary Report in the aftermath of the liberation

RG-09.07.01.14, German women are brought from Weimar to see the horrors of the Buchenwald concentration camp

RG-09.07.01.15, This heap of ashes and bones represents only one day’s killing of prisoners in Buchenwald concentration camp

RG-09.07.01.16, Buchenwald concentration camp. On the foreground, there is a Hungarian Jew, prisoner of the camp. He reached a point of starvation where the outline of his backbone literally could be seen  from the front of his body.

RG-09.07.02, Patricia Fishtein Collection, Liberation of concentration camp sites, 32 photographs. Buchenwald and Ohrdruf, April 1945

RG-09.07.03, Clifton Gallup Collection of postliberation photographs taken in the Buchenwald concentration camp

RG-09.07.03.01, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 1 of 22

RG-09.07.03.02, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 2 of 22

RG-09.07.03.03, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 3 of 22

RG-09.07.03.04, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 4 of 22

RG-09.07.03.05, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 5 of 22

RG-09.07.03.06, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 6 of 22

RG-09.07.03.07, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 7 of 22

RG-09.07.03.08, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 8 of 22

RG-09.07.03.09, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 9 of 22

RG-09.07.03.10, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 10 of 22

RG-09.07.03.11, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 11 of 22

RG-09.07.03.12, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 12 of 22

RG-09.07.03.13, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 13 of 22

RG-09.07.03.14, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 14 of 22

RG-09.07.03.15, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 15 of 22

RG-09.07.03.16, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 16 of 22

RG-09.07.03.17, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 17 of 22

RG-09.07.03.18, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 18 of 22

RG-09.07.03.19, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 19 of 22

RG-09.07.03.20, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 20 of 22

RG-09.07.03.21, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 21 of 22

RG-09.07.03.22, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 22 of 22

RG-09.07.03.23, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photos envelope

RG-09.08, Liberation of Nordhausen Concentration Camp Collection: Nordhausen was a subsidiary camp of the Dora-Mittelbau production complex and concentration camp. The SS authorities established Nordhausen camp for prisoners too weak or too ill to work in the tunnels of Dora on the manufacturing of the German V1 and V2 missiles. Nordhausen concentration camp is shown shortly after liberation: 25 photographs depicting lying-on-the-ground corpses of prisoners scattered all over the camp and other camp scenes. The photographs were taken by US military personnel of the 1151 Combat Engineer Group. The camp was liberated on 12 April 1945.

RG-09.08.01, Sig Halbreich photo collection of liberation of Nazi concentration camps, Dora-Nordhausen; This collection includes 34 photographs taken in the aftermath of the camp liberation

RG-09.08.02, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, a bunker used by SS during Allied bombing

RG-09.08.03, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, US soldiers oversee Germans digging graves

RG-09.08.04, Dora-Nordhausen, 25 photographs, in the aftermath of liberation

RG-09.08.05, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, US military doctors inspecting corpses

RG-09.08.06, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, mass graves organized after the war

RG-09.08.07, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, mass graves of crosses and Jewish stars

RG-09.08.08, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, mass grave dug by Germans at order of the American military

RG-09.08.09, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, German civilians place corpses into mass grave

RG-09.08.10, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, American doctors inspecting corpses

RG-09.08.11, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, American doctor performing autopsy

RG-09.08.12, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, displaced persons camp, survivors

RG-09.08.13, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, tunnels where rocket parts were manufactured

RG-09.08.14, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, entrance to tunnels

RG-09.08.15, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, a prisoner in the foreground

RG-09.08.16, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, barracks with banks

RG-09.08.17, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, electric fences

RG-09.09, Liberation of Landsberg Concentration Camp Collection; Seven photographs of postliberation at the site of Landsberg Concentration Camp taken by a U.S. military serviceman from the 12th Armored Division

RG-09.10, Zeymour Herman Collection; This collection of photographs was donated by Zeymour Herman of Van Nuys. Although the photographs are not dated, the museum accession records date them to March 1945. It is likely that this concentration camp was located in the American theater of war zone at the end of the war. There is no certainty in what concentration camp these photographs were taken; Original archive description: “Photos of bombed building, army vehicles, concentration camp postcard (March 1945), newspaper”; Provenance: Zeymour Herman, 6525 Ventura Can., Van Nuys, CA 91401; Accession #: 89.64.02; Accession Date: 5 December 1989

RG-09.10.01, Zeymour Herman Collection, Liberation of a concentration camp, six photographs; Photograph #1, A concentration camp lane or area between two rows of barracks. The photograph is taken looking through barbed wire; Photograph #2, Soldiers walking down a concentration camp lane or area between two rows of barracks, backs facing the camera. The foreground shows the electric barbed wire fence; Photograph #3, A concentration camp lane or area between two rows of barracks. Emaciated corpses lie in the background; Photograph #4, Men walking by a pile of corpses, both nude and in uniform, in front of building 16 at a concentration camp. The man walking in the foreground is a blur; Photograph #5, Double photograph – On the left, an American soldier is getting off the back of a jeep; on the right, a photograph of a building at a concentration camp. Dead bodies are piled in front of the building; Photograph #6, Close-up of a pile of dead corpses, some nude and some with uniform. The pile is next to a row of buildings at a concentration camp

RG-09.11, Various post-liberation photographs

RG-09.11.01, Photograph, Monument to victims of the concentration camp Stutthof, Poland

RG-09.11.02, Photograph, Soldiers walking down a concentration camp lane or area between two rows of barracks, backs facing the camera

RG-09.11.03, Photograph, Monument to Victims of Chelmno death camp, Poland

RG-09.11.04, Photograph, Ebensee concentration camp, liberated prisoners, Austria, May 1945

RG-09.11.05, Photograph, Woebbelin and Ebensee camps liberated (left); prisoner freed from Woebbelin camp (right)

RG-09.12, Kurt Wittler Collection

RG-09.12.01, Kurt Wittler, Nazi crimes in the camps, photo-documents

RG- 09.13, Documentary from the USHMM, Nazi atrocities by the War Department, narrated

RG-09.14, Letter from Mr. Smith

RG-09.15, Anthony Hinds Collection

RG-09.15.01, Human remains, post-liberation of a concentration camp

RG-09.15.02, Corpses, post-liberation of a concentration camp

RG-09.15.03, Reconstruction of a body being dragged in a crematory, post-liberation of a concentration camp

RG-09.15.04, Pile of human remains, post-liberation of a concentration camp

RG-09.15.05, Cart filled with human remains being wheeled along a sidewalk

RG-09.15.06, Three men look down into a mass grave full of human remains

RG-09.15.07, A cart filled with human remains sits in front of the barracks

RG-09.15.08, A truck containing disheveled clothing reads 'OFF LIMITS'

RG-09.15.09, Three American soldiers in front of a pile of human remains

RG-09.15.10, Close-up of a pile of human remains, post-liberation of a concentration camp

RG-09.15.11, Close-up of a pile of human remains with two clearly defined skulls in the foreground

RG-09.15.12, Close-up of the lower half of a human skeleton in a crematory

RG-09.15.13, Pile of tattered clothing and other personal belongings

RG-09.15.14, Re-creation of a cremation, post-liberation of a concentration camp

RG-09.15.15, Two men lift the arm and leg of a corpse, post-liberation of a concentration camp

RG-09.15.16, Reconstruction of a crematory scene, post-liberation of a concentration camp

RG-09.16, Postwar Camp Memorial Sites

RG-09.16.01, Postcards of Ravensbrück Memorial, Eight black and white postcards. Text is in German

RG-09.16.02, Stutthof Guide Book, 1968. Language: English. A guidebook detailing the history of the camp. Includes black-and-white photographs of the camp during the war

RG-09.16.03, “What was it like in the Concentration Camp at Dachau?” Written by Dr. Johann Neuhausler, Auxiliary Bishop of Munich, translated from the German, 8th ed.

Accession #: 82.385; A book written by Dr. Johann Neuhausler, Auxiliary Bishop of Munich, who was a “special prisoner” confined in the “Bunker” (jail) of the Dachau concentration camp because he spoke to the Priest and other bishops about National Socialist injustices. The book draws from his personal experiences as a prisoner and from other publications about Dachau

RG-09.16.04, Memorial booklet, Dated 16 April 1967, Provenance: Alex Schwartz (Kopfl) and Family, Accession #: 84.165; Language: Polish

RG-09.16.05, Oswiecim (Auschwitz) Memorial Wimples, c. 1960-70s. Two Oswiecim (Auschwitz) Memorial Wimples, c. 1960-70s. One side is blue-and-white-striped with the upside-down red triangle of a political prisoner.  The back depicts a black graphic logo of barbed wires and a watchtower

RG-09.16.06, Treblinka, Memorial booklet, Provenance: The Library of Benjamin Grey,

Language: English, Two Treblinka Memorial booklets containing text in English and black-and-white photographs

Subject/Index Terms

Allied discovery of Nazi war crimes
evidences of the crimes of National Socialist regime
liberation of Nazi concentration camps, Europe

Administrative Information

Repository: Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Access Restrictions: no restrictions

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Digital copies might be available upon request

Preferred Citation: RG-09, Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps and Camp Site Memorials. Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Archive.

Processing Information: Materials are primarily described using the local descriptive standards of the LA Museum of the Holocaust.


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[Sub-Collection 1: RG-09.01, Gardelegen Massacre, April 1945],
[Sub-Collection 2: RG-09.02, Mauthausen Collection, May 1945],
[Sub-Collection 3: RG-09.03, Majdanek Collection, July 1944],
[Sub-Collection 4: RG-09.04, Ravensbruck Collection, April 1945],
[Sub-Collection 5: RG-09.05, Dachau Collection, April 1945 -- 1947],
[Sub-Collection 6: RG-09.06, Gusen Collection, May 1945],
[Sub-Collection 7: RG-09.07, Liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, April 1945],
[Sub-Collection 8: RG-09.08, Dora-Nordhausen Collection, April 1945],
[Sub-Collection 9: RG-09.09, Landsberg Collection, April 1945],
[Sub-Collection 10: RG-09.10, Zeymour Herman Collection, March 1945],
[Sub-Collection 11: RG-09.11, Various post-liberation photographs, 1945],
[Sub-Collection 12: RG-09.12, Kurt Wittler Collection],
[Sub-Collection 13: RG-09.13, Documentary from the USHMM, Nazi atrocities by the War Department, narrated, 1945],
[Sub-Collection 15: RG-09.15, Anthony Hinds Collection, 1945],
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Sub-Collection 1: RG-09.01, Gardelegen Massacre, April 1945Add to your cart.
On 13th April 1945, the SS massacred 1016 religious, political, and military prisoners from the Nordhausen, Rottleberode, Wiede, and Ilfeld concentration camps. They burned them in the barn. Only seven of them survived. They were discovered by the U.S. Army 102nd Infantry Division’s 405th Regiment 2nd Battalion on 15th April 1945. Vern Ecklund, Army Signal Corps photographer, documented the site of massacre.
Subject/Index Terms:
Gardelegen massacre
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
German-Nazi crimes in occupied countries of Europe
Creators:
Eucklund, Vern (April 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-09.01.01, Photographs, Gardelegen Massacre, copies of the originals made by the soldiers of the 102nd Infantry Division, US Armed Forces, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Copies of the original 9 photographs of the Gardelegen Massacre made by the soldiers of the 102nd Infantry Division, US Armed Forces in April 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Gardelegen massacre
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Prisoners of war, Allied
Creators:
Eucklund, Vern (April 1945)
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-09.01.02, Photographs, Gardelegen Massacre, original photographs, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Sixteen original photographs, some of which are clearly of the massacre at Gardelegen in April 1945. Several photographs represent crematories and other scenes. Two have handwritten comments on the back, one identifying a corpse as that of an SS guard who tried to escape and the other of German civilians forced to bury corpses by the US military.
Subject/Index Terms:
Gardelegen massacre
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Prisoners of war, Allied
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Creators:
Eucklund, Vern (April 1945)
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-09.01.03, Photograph, Gardelegen Massarce, dead prisoner at the door of the barn, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of the Massacre at Gardelegen in April 1945. The photo was cut from a book with a German caption. It portrays corpses at the door of the barn, one prisoner apparently having struggled to escape the burning barn.
Subject/Index Terms:
Gardelegen massacre
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Prisoners of war, Allied
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Photographs
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Eucklund, Vern (April 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-09.01.04, Gardelegen Massacre, letter by Vern Ecklund, photographer, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A handwritten letter by Vern Ecklund, Army Signal Corps photographer of the US 102nd Infantry Division’s 405th Regiment, 2nd Battalion. The massacre scene was discovered by these soldiers on April 15, 1945. The letter asserts that bodies were still burning when he saw them. Copy from the original.
Subject/Index Terms:
Gardelegen massacre
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Prisoners of War, Allied powers
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Eucklund, Vern (April 1945)
Sub-Collection 2: RG-09.02, Mauthausen Collection, May 1945Add to your cart.

Photographs, depicting the aftermath of the liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp

RG-09.02, Liberation of Mauthausen, Collection of Photographs

RG-09.02.01, Six photographs (copies) taken in the aftermath of liberation at the Mauthausen concentration camp. The pictures were taken by the soldiers of the 328th Infantry Regiment of the US Armed Forces

RG-09.02.02, Photograph, Mauthausen, in the aftermath of the liberation, 1 May 1945. Caption on the reverse side reads: “May 1 ’45 – Mauthausen, Austria – We freed this camp a few days before the War was over – some of these are dead – some not yet”; Provenance: Gary Smith, 1512 English Drive, San Jose, CA 95129; tel. 408 725-0320; 1-888-741-5824

RG-09.02.03, Photograph, Mauthausen after liberation, a row of dead bodies

Subject/Index Terms:
Liberation of concentration camps
Mauthausen concentration camp, liberation and its aftermath
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Creators:
US Military personnel (May 1945)
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-09.02.01, Photographs, Mauthausen, aftermath of the liberation, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Six photographs (copies) taken in the aftermath of liberation at the Mauthausen concentration camp. The pictures were taken by the soldiers of the 328th Infantry Regiment of the US Armed Forces in May 1945. The photos are of dead prisoners and some pictures include US soldiers standing near by.
Subject/Index Terms:
Mauthausen concentration camp, liberation and its aftermath
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Aftermath of liberation
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military personnel (May 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-09.02.02, Photograph, Mauthausen, piles of corpses, 1 May 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of Mauthausen in the aftermath of liberation, May 1, 1945. The caption on the reverse side reads: “May 1 ’45 – Mauthausen, Austria – We freed this camp a few days before the War was over – some of these are dead – some not yet”
Subject/Index Terms:
Mauthausen concentration camp, liberation and its aftermath
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Aftermath of liberation
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-09.02.03, Photograph, Mauthausen after liberation, a row of dead bodies, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a row of dead bodies taken after the liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp in May 1945 by US military personnel.
Subject/Index Terms:
Mauthausen concentration camp, liberation and its aftermath
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Aftermath of liberation
Creators:
US Military personnel (May 1945)
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Sub-Collection 3: RG-09.03, Majdanek Collection, July 1944Add to your cart.

Majdanek concentrtation camp, located at the outskirts of Lublin, was liberated by the Soviet Red Army in the late July 1944

RG-09.03, Liberation of Majdanek, Collection of photographs (original photographs taken in July 1944)

RG-09.03.01, Two photographs depicting a mass grave in Majdanek concentration camp. One photograph shows the entire trench, the other is a close up on the dead bodies

RG-09.03.02, Photograph, Hanging on the site of the Majdanek concentration camp, apparently an execution of the Nazi collaborators after liberation

RG-09.03.03, Four emaciated female survivors of the Majdanek concentration camp. Camera depicts them from the back

RG-09.03.04, Photograph, Majdanek after liberation, a pile of corpses

RG-09.03.05, Photograph, Majdanek after liberation, Soviet soldiers examine the dead prisoners

RG-09.03.06, Photograph, Majdanek, a dead prisoner on the barbed wire

RG-09.03.07, Photograph, Majdanek, an emaciated female survivor, camera depicts her from the back

RG-09.03.08, Photograph, Majdanek, emaciated male survivors, depicted naked

Subject/Index Terms:
Majdanek, German concentration camp
Majdanek concentration camp, liberation
Documenting the Nazi crimes in concentration camps
Creators:
Soviet military officials (July 1944)
Polish government officials (July 1944)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-09.03.01, Photographs, Majdanek, mass grave, 1944Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Two photographs depicting a mass grave in Majdanek concentration camp. One photograph shows the entire trench; the other is a close up of the dead bodies.
Subject/Index Terms:
Majdanek concentration camp, liberation
Majdanek, German concentration camp
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Aftermath of liberation
Photographs
mass graves
Creators:
Polish government officials (July 1944)
Soviet military officials (July 1944)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-09.03.02, Photograph, Majdanek, hanging of the collaborators, 1944Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a hanging on the site of the Majdanek concentration camp, apparently an execution of the Nazi collaborators after liberation in July 1944.
Subject/Index Terms:
Majdanek concentration camp, liberation
Majdanek, German concentration camp
Aftermath of liberation
concentration camp photographs
Photographs
concentration camp victims
Execution in concentration camps
Creators:
Polish government officials (July 1944)
Soviet military officials (July 1944)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-09.03.03, Photograph, Majdanek, four emaciated female survivors, 1944Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Four emaciated female survivors of the Majdanek concentration camp. Camera depicts them from the back. July 1944.
Subject/Index Terms:
Majdanek concentration camp, liberation
Majdanek, German concentration camp
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Aftermath of liberation
Photographs
Creators:
Soviet military officials (July 1944)
Polish government officials (July 1944)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-09.03.04, Photograph, Majdanek after liberation, a pile of corpses, 1944Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a pile of corpses taken after the liberation of Majdanek concentration camp in July 1944.
Subject/Index Terms:
Majdanek concentration camp, liberation
Majdanek, German concentration camp
Aftermath of liberation
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Photographs
Creators:
Polish government officials (July 1944)
Soviet military officials (July 1944)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 5: RG-09.03.05, Photograph, Majdanek after liberation, Soviet soldiers examine dead prisoners, 1944Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a Soviet soldiers examining dead prisoners taken in July 1944 after the liberation of Majdanek concentration camp.
Subject/Index Terms:
Majdanek concentration camp, liberation
Majdanek, German concentration camp
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Aftermath of liberation
Photographs
Creators:
Polish government officials (July 1944)
Soviet military officials (July 1944)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 6: RG-09.03.06, Photograph, Majdanek, a dead prisoner on the barbed wire, 1944Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a dead prisoner on a barbed wire fence taken in July 1944 after the liberation of Majdanek concentration camp.
Subject/Index Terms:
Majdanek concentration camp, liberation
Majdanek, German concentration camp
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Aftermath of liberation
Photographs
Creators:
Polish government officials (July 1944)
Soviet military officials (July 1944)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 7: RG-09.03.07, Photograph, Majdanek after liberation, an emaciated female prisoner, 1944Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of an emaciated female prisoner. The camera depicts her from the back.  It was taken in July 1944 after the liberation of Majdanek concentration camp.
Subject/Index Terms:
Majdanek concentration camp, liberation
Majdanek, German concentration camp
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Aftermath of liberation
Photographs
Creators:
Polish government officials (July 1944)
Soviet military officials (July 1944)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 8: RG-09.03.08, Photograph, Majdanek after liberation, emaciated male survivors, depicted naked, 1944Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of emaciated male survivors.  The picture was taken after the liberation of Majdanek in July 1944.
Subject/Index Terms:
Majdanek concentration camp, liberation
Majdanek, German concentration camp
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Aftermath of liberation
Photographs
Creators:
Polish government officials (July 1944)
Soviet military officials (July 1944)
Sub-Collection 4: RG-09.04, Ravensbruck Collection, April 1945Add to your cart.

Ravensbruck was the largest concentration camp for women ever built in Germany.  The first prisoners arrived in the spiring of 1941. The majority of the prisoners were Polish women not Jews.  In 1945, when news reached the camp that Soviet forces were approching, the Nazis sent the prisoners who were well enough to leave on a death march.  Ravensbruck was liberated on April 30, 1945.  Soviet forces found only extremely ill women left at the camp.

The documents in this collection include photographs of the Ravensbruck concentration camp crematoria, execution passage, inside view of the prison corridor with the cells, and a transport from Ravensbruck to Auschwitz concentration camp.

Subject/Index Terms:
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
Liberation of concentration camps
Creators:
Allied Military Personnel
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-09.04.01, Ravensbruck, three photographs of the camp, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Three photographs depicting the crematoria, the execution passage, and the inside view of the prison corridor with cells at Ravensbruck concentration camp.
Subject/Index Terms:
Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
liberation of Nazi concentration camps, Europe
Concentration Camp Crematorium
concentration camp photographs
Aftermath of liberation
Creators:
Allied Military Personnel
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-09.04.02, Photograph, Ravensbruck, transport to Auschwitz, 1939--1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph depicting a transport from Ravensbruck concentration camp to Auschwitz concentration camp.
Subject/Index Terms:
Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
concentration camp victims
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Deportations to Auschwitz concentration camp
Creators:
Allied Military Personnel
Sub-Collection 5: RG-09.05, Dachau Collection, April 1945 -- 1947Add to your cart.

Dachau was the first concentration camp established by the Nazis in 1933. Its initial prisoners were political opponents, but later many Jews were sent there as well. Dachau was a labor camp where many died or were sent to an extermination camp in Austria.  On April 27, 1945 the Nazis forced 7,000 prisoners on a death march.  Two days later, on April 29, 1945, the camp was liberated by American forces.

The sub-collection includes photographs of dead prisoners after the liberation of Dachau and photographs of the Dachau concentration camp memorial site in 1947.

Subject/Index Terms:
Dachau (Concentration camp)
Liberation of concentration camps
Holocaust Memorialization
Museum presentation of Nazi crimes
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Memorial site of the former Dachau concentration camp (1947)
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Memorial site of the former Dachau concentration camp (1947)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-09.05.01, Photographs, Dachau in the aftermath of liberation, crime scenes, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Photographs depicting a view of the former Dachau concentration camp as of 6 August 1945. The pictures are of dead bodies, soldiers, and the camp.   The caption on the back states that the camp was an incarceration center for the prisoners of the SS.
Subject/Index Terms:
Dachau (Concentration camp)
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Aftermath of liberation
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-09.05.01.01, Photographs, Dachau in the aftermath of liberation, crime scenes, page one, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Photographs of Dachau Concentration Camp after the camp was liberated in 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Dachau (Concentration camp)
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Aftermath of liberation
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-09.05.01.02, Photographs, Dachau in the aftermath of liberation, crime scenes, page two, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Photographs of Dachau Concentration Camp after it was liberated in 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Dachau (Concentration camp)
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Aftermath of liberation
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-09.05.01.03, Photograph, Dachau in the aftermath of liberation, crime scenes, page three, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of concentration camp victims from Dachau.  The photograph was taken after Dachau was liberated in 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Dachau (Concentration camp)
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Aftermath of liberation
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 5: RG-09.05.02, Photographs, Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, 1947Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
20 photographs of the Dachau Memorial Camp-Site in 1947. The photographs are of camp installations, execution sites, and devices of tortures. Some of the devices of torture are replicated as models.
Subject/Index Terms:
Dachau (Concentration camp)
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Museum presentation of Nazi crimes
Holocaust Memorialization
Memorial site of the former Dachau concentration camp (1947)
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 6: RG-09.05.02.01, Dachau Memorial Site, page one, 1947Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Photographs from the Dachau Memorial Site.
Subject/Index Terms:
Museum presentation of Nazi crimes
Memorial site of the former Dachau concentration camp (1947)
Holocaust Memorialization
Dachau (Concentration camp)
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 7: RG-09.05.02.02, Dachau Memorial Site, page two, 1947Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Photographs of the Dachau Memorial Site.  The photographs show various examples of Nazi torture and crematoriums.
Subject/Index Terms:
Holocaust Memorialization
Dachau (Concentration camp)
Memorial site of the former Dachau concentration camp (1947)
Museum presentation of Nazi crimes
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Concentration Camp Crematorium
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 8: RG-09.05.02.03, Dachau Memorial Site, page three, 1947Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Photographs from the Dachau Memorial Site.  One photograph shows an outside view of the camp crematorium.
Subject/Index Terms:
Dachau (Concentration camp)
Holocaust Memorialization
Memorial site of the former Dachau concentration camp (1947)
Museum presentation of Nazi crimes
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Concentration Camp Crematorium
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 9: RG-09.05.02.04, Dachau Memorial Site, page four, 1947Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Photographs taken of the Dachau Memorial Site.  The camp was liberated in 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Dachau (Concentration camp)
Holocaust Memorialization
Memorial site of the former Dachau concentration camp (1947)
Museum presentation of Nazi crimes
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 10: RG-09.05.02.05, Dachau Memorial Site, page five, 1947Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Photographs of the Dachau Memorial Site.  The camp was initially liberated in 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Dachau (Concentration camp)
Holocaust Memorialization
Memorial site of the former Dachau concentration camp (1947)
Museum presentation of Nazi crimes
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 11: RG-09.05.03, A view of the former Dachau concentration camp, August 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A view of the former Dachau concentration camp as of August 6, 1945.  At that time the camp was being used as an incarceration center for the SS prisoners.
Subject/Index Terms:
Dachau (Concentration camp)
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
concentration camp photographs
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel
Sub-Collection 6: RG-09.06, Gusen Collection, May 1945Add to your cart.
This sub-collection contains 23 photographs taken by the US soldiers who liberated Gusen concentration camp in May 1945.  The pictures are of piles and rows of dead bodies, emaciated survivors, soldiers by the graves of burried victims, the concentration camp environment, and crematoria.
Subject/Index Terms:
Liberation of concentration camps
Gusen, German concentration camp
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Creators:
US Military personnel (May 1945)
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-09.06.01, Photographs, Gusen concentration camp in the aftermath of liberation, May 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
23 photographs of Gusen concentration camp in the aftermath of liberation in May 1945.  The pictures are of piles and rows of dead bodies, emaciated survivors, soldiers by the graves of burried victims, the concentration camp environment, and crematoria. The photographs were taken by US soldiers.
Subject/Index Terms:
Liberation of concentration camps
Gusen, German concentration camp
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Mauthausen, German Concentration camp
mass graves
Creators:
US Military personnel (May 1945)
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-09.06.01.01, Photographs, Gusen concentration camp in the aftermath of the liberation, page one, May 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Photographs from the Gusen Concentration Camp after liberation in May 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Gusen, German concentration camp
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Mauthausen, German Concentration camp
mass graves
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military personnel (May 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-09.06.01.02, Photographs, Gusen concentration camp in the aftermath of the liberation, page two, May 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Photographs from the Gusen Concentration Camp.  The photographs depict mass graves where prisoners from both Gusen and Mauthausen Concentration Camps were buried.
Subject/Index Terms:
Gusen, German concentration camp
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Mauthausen, German Concentration camp
mass graves
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military personnel (May 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-09.06.01.03, Photographs, Gusen concentration camp in the aftermath of the liberation, page three, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Photographs of Gusen Concentration Camp after liberation in 1945.  The photographs depict shots of the camp and mass graves.
Subject/Index Terms:
Gusen, German concentration camp
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Mauthausen, German Concentration camp
mass graves
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military personnel (May 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 5: RG-09.06.01.04, Photographs, Gusen concentration camp in the aftermath of the liberation, page four, May 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Photographs of Gausen Concentration Camp.  The camp was liberated in May 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Gusen, German concentration camp
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Mauthausen, German Concentration camp
mass graves
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military personnel (May 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 6: RG-09.06.01.05, Photographs, Gusen concentration camp in the aftermath of the liberation, page five, May 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Photographs of Gausen Concentration Camp.  The camp was liberated in May 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Gusen, German concentration camp
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Mauthausen, German Concentration camp
mass graves
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military personnel (May 1945)
Sub-Collection 7: RG-09.07, Liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, April 1945Add to your cart.

Approximately 21,000 victims of the Nazi regime were liberated when troops of the Third U.S. Army seized the camp on April 13, 1945. It is estimated that in the previous 10 years more than 70,000 opponents to National Socialism had been starved and murdered in this camp.

This sub-collection contains photographs of dead bodies and US soldiers after the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp..

Subject/Index Terms:
Buchenwald, German-Nazi concentration camp
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Collection of Folder-Level 1: RG-09.07.01, Buchenwald Collection, 1945Add to your cart.
Collection of photographs depicting post-liberation scenes and activities in the former Buchenwald concentration camp. This collection consists of photographs that are copies from the originals.
Subject/Index Terms:
Buchenwald, German-Nazi concentration camp
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-09.07.01.01, Photograph, Buchenwald, a pile of corpses in a room with a tiled floor with a drain, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a pile of corpses in a room with a tiled floor and a drain taken after the liberation of Buchenwald in April 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Buchenwald, German-Nazi concentration camp
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-09.07.01.02, Photograph, Buchenwald, crematory with skeletons in the foreground, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a crematory with skeletons inside.  The photo was taken in early 1945 after the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp by the Americans.
Subject/Index Terms:
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Buchenwald, German-Nazi concentration camp
concentration camp photographs
Concentration Camp Crematorium
concentration camp victims
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-09.07.01.03, Photograph, Buchenwald, eight inmates displaying wounds on their feet, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of eight inmates displaying wounds on their feet taken after liberation at Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Buchenwald, German-Nazi concentration camp
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-09.07.01.05, Photograph, Buchenwald, flatbed double axle trailer piled high with corpses, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a flatbed double axle trailer piled high with corpses taken in early April 1945 after the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp by American forces.
Subject/Index Terms:
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Buchenwald, German-Nazi concentration camp
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 5: RG-09.07.01.06, Photograph, Buchenwald, flatbed truck piled high with corpses, close up of the heads, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph taken at the site of Buchenwald concentration camp of a flatbed trailer piled high with corpses with a close up of the victims' heads. The photo was taken in early April 1945 after liberation by American forces.
Subject/Index Terms:
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Buchenwald, German-Nazi concentration camp
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 6: RG-09.07.01.09, Buchenwald, ledger book with names of registered prisoners, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a ledger book with the names of registered prisoners at Buchenwald concentration camp. The photo was taken in April 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Buchenwald, German-Nazi concentration camp
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 7: RG-09.07.01.10, Photograph, Buchenwald after liberation, men place corpses on the cart, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph taken after liberation at Buchenwald concentration camp of men placing corpses on a cart.  The photo was taken in April 1945 after liberation by American forces.
Subject/Index Terms:
Buchenwald, German-Nazi concentration camp
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 8: RG-09.07.01.11, Photograph, Buchenwald, two men examine a pile of corpses near a building, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of two men examining a pile of corpses near a building at the site of Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation in April 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Buchenwald, German-Nazi concentration camp
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Collection of Folder-Level 2: RG-09.07.02, Buchenwald Collection of Patricia Fishtein, 1945Add to your cart.
33 photographs taken after the liberation of the concentration camps Buchenwald and Ohrdruf, April 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Ohrdruf-Nord (Concentration camp)
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Liberation of concentration camps
Buchenwald, German-Nazi concentration camp
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-09-07.02.01, Photographs, Patricia Fishtein Collection of the liberation of camps, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Photographs taken after the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp and Ohrdruf concentration camp in April 1945. The pictures include piles of dead bodies and the environment of the concentration camps.
Subject/Index Terms:
Buchenwald, German-Nazi concentration camp
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Ohrdruf-Nord (Concentration camp)
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Collection of Folder-Level 3: RG-09.07.03, Buchenwald photo collection of Clifton Gallup, 1945Add to your cart.
This sub-collection contains postliberation photographs taken in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Subject/Index Terms:
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Buchenwald, German-Nazi concentration camp
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-09.07.03.01, Photograph, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 1 of 22, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of burned bodies in a pile of wood at Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Buchenwald, German-Nazi concentration camp
concentration camp victims
concentration camp photographs
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-09.07.03.02, Photograph, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 2 of 22, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of dead prisoners lying on the floor in the foreground and US soldiers in the background at the site of Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Buchenwald, German-Nazi concentration camp
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-09.07.03.03, Photograph, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 3 of 22, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of dead bodies lying on the ground with some men and US soldiers in the background at the site of Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Buchenwald, German-Nazi concentration camp
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-09.07.03.04, Photograph, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 4 of 22, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a flatbed truck piled high with bodies.  A US soldier is in the foreground. The photo was taken at the site of Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Buchenwald, German-Nazi concentration camp
concentration camp victims
concentration camp photographs
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 5: RG-09.07.03.05, Photograph, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 5 of 22, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a flatbed truck piled high with dead bodies.  Two US soldiers stand next to the pile of corpses. The photo was taken at the site of the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Buchenwald, German-Nazi concentration camp
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 6: RG-09.07.03.06, Photograph, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 6 of 22, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a dead man lying on the ground at the site of Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Buchenwald, German-Nazi concentration camp
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 7: RG-09.07.03.07, Photograph, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 7 of 22, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a US military truck at the site of Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Liberation of concentration camps
Buchenwald, German-Nazi concentration camp
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 8: RG-09.07.03.08, Photograph, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 8 of 22, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a tree  and a dead body in the foreground and buildings and US soldiers in the background at the site of Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Buchenwald, German-Nazi concentration camp
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 9: RG-09.07.03.09, Photograph, Clifton Gallup Collection, Buchenwald photo 9 of 22, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a corpse's leg in mud and water taken at the site of Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Buchenwald, German-Nazi concentration camp
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Sub-Collection 8: RG-09.08, Dora-Nordhausen Collection, April 1945Add to your cart.
Liberation of Nordhausen Concentration Camp Collection: Nordhausen was a subsidiary camp of the Dora-Mittelbau production complex and concentration camp. The SS authorities established Nordhausen camp for prisoners too weak or too ill to work in the tunnels of Dora on the manufacturing of the German V1 and V2 missiles. Nordhausen concentration camp is shown shortly after liberation. 25 photographs depict lying-on-the-ground corpses of prisoners scattered all over the camp and other camp scenes. The photographs were taken by US military personnel of the 1151 Combat Engineer Group. The camp was liberated on 12 April 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Dora-Nordhausen (Concentration camp)
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Creators:
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-09.08.01, Photographs, Sig Halbreich photo collection of liberation of concentration canps, Dora-Nordhausen, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Photographs from the Sig Halbreich photo collection taken in the aftermath of the liberation of Dora-Nordhausen concentration camp in April 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Dora-Nordhausen (Concentration camp)
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Aftermath of liberation
Creators:
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-09.08.02, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, a bunker used by SS during Allied  bombing, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a bunker used by the SS during the Allied bombing of Dora-Nordhausen concentration camp.
Subject/Index Terms:
Dora-Nordhausen (Concentration camp)
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
concentration camp photographs
Aftermath of liberation
Creators:
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-09.08.03, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, US soldiers oversee Germans digging graves, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of US soldiers overseeing German civilians digging graves for the victims of Dora-Nordhausen concentration camp.
Subject/Index Terms:
Dora-Nordhausen (Concentration camp)
Liberation of concentration camps
German civilians digging mass graves for concentration camp victims
mass graves
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Aftermath of liberation
Creators:
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-09.08.04, Photograph, 25 photographs, in the aftermath of liberation, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
25 photographs of taken during the aftermath of liberation in April 1945 at Dora-Nordhausen concentration camp.  The pictures are mainly of dead bodies and US soldiers.
Subject/Index Terms:
Dora-Nordhausen (Concentration camp)
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Aftermath of liberation
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 5: RG-09.08.05, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, US military doctors inspecting corpses, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a US military doctor inspecting a corpse taken after the liberation of Dora-Nordhausen concentration camp in April 1945 .
Subject/Index Terms:
Dora-Nordhausen (Concentration camp)
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Aftermath of liberation
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 6: RG-09.08.06, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, mass graves organized after the war, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Mass graves organized after the war at Dora-Nordhausen concentration camp.
Subject/Index Terms:
Dora-Nordhausen (Concentration camp)
Liberation of concentration camps
mass graves
Aftermath of liberation
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 7: RG-09.08.07, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, mass grave of crosses and Jewish stars, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a mass grave with crosses and Jewish stars for the victims of Dora-Nordhausen concentration camp.
Subject/Index Terms:
Dora-Nordhausen (Concentration camp)
Liberation of concentration camps
mass graves
Aftermath of liberation
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 8: RG-09.08.08, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, mass grave dug by Germans at order of the American military, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a mass grave dug by Germans at Dora-Nordhausen concentration camp after iberationn under orders of the American military in 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Dora-Nordhausen (Concentration camp)
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
German civilians digging mass graves for concentration camp victims
mass graves
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 9: RG-09.08.09, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, German civilians place corpses into mass grave, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of German civilians placing a corpse into a mass grave at Dora-Nordhausen concentration camp.
Subject/Index Terms:
Dora-Nordhausen (Concentration camp)
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
German civilians digging mass graves for concentration camp victims
mass graves
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 10: RG-09.08.10, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, American doctors inspecting corpses, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of an American doctor inspecting corpses at Dora-Nordhausen concentration camp.
Subject/Index Terms:
Dora-Nordhausen (Concentration camp)
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
concentration camp victims
concentration camp photographs
Creators:
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 11: RG-09.08.11, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, American doctor performing autopsy, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of an American doctor performing an autopsy on a victim of Dora-Nordhausen concentration camp.
Subject/Index Terms:
Dora-Nordhausen (Concentration camp)
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 12: RG-09.08.12, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, displaced persons camp, survivors, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of survivors at a displaced persons camp.
Subject/Index Terms:
Displaced persons camps
Liberation of concentration camps
concentration camp victims
displaced person camp, photographs
Creators:
US Military Personnel
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 13: RG-09.08.13, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, tunnels where rocket parts were manufactured, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph taken at Dora-Nordhausen concentration camp of tunnels where rocket parts were manufactured.
Subject/Index Terms:
Dora-Nordhausen (Concentration camp)
Photographs
Photographs, postwar, 1945 -- 1988
Aftermath of liberation
concentration camp photographs
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 14: RG-09.08.14, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, entrance to tunnels, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph taken at Dora-Nordhausen of an entrance to tunnels.
Subject/Index Terms:
Dora-Nordhausen (Concentration camp)
concentration camp photographs
Photographs, postwar, 1945 -- 1988
Photographs
Aftermath of liberation
Creators:
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 15: RG-09.08.15, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, a prisoner in the foreground, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph taken at Dora-Nordhausen concnetration camp of a prisoner in the striped uniform in the foreground.
Subject/Index Terms:
Dora-Nordhausen (Concentration camp)
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Aftermath of liberation
Creators:
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 16: RG-09.08.16, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, barracks with bunks, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a barracks with bunks where prisoners slept at Dora-Nordhausen concentration camp.
Subject/Index Terms:
Dora-Nordhausen (Concentration camp)
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Aftermath of liberation
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Creators:
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 17: RG-09.08.17, Photograph, Dora-Nordhausen, electric fences, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of an electric fence taken at Dora-Nordhausen concentration camp.
Subject/Index Terms:
Dora-Nordhausen (Concentration camp)
Aftermath of liberation
concentration camp photographs
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Creators:
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Sub-Collection 9: RG-09.09, Landsberg Collection, April 1945Add to your cart.
This sub-collection includes photographs of corpses taken by a US military serviceman from the 12th Armored Division shortly after the liberation of Landsberg concentration camp.
Subject/Index Terms:
Landsberg Concentration Camp
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Creators:
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-09.09.01, Photographs, Landsberg concentration camp after liberation, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Two photographs taken post-liberation of emaciated corpses lying on the ground at Landsberg concentration camp in 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Landsberg Concentration Camp
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Aftermath of liberation
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
US Military Personnel (April 1945)
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Sub-Collection 10: RG-09.10, Zeymour Herman Collection, March 1945Add to your cart.
The photographs in this sub-collection are not dated, but the museum accession records date them to March 1945. It is likely that this concentration camp was located in the American theater of war zone at the end of the war. There is no certainty in what concentration camp these photographs were taken. The original archive description: “Photos of bombed building, army vehicles, concentration camp postcard (March 1945), newspaper.”
Subject/Index Terms:
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Creators:
US Military Personnel
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-09.10.01, Photographs, Zeymour Herman Collection, Liberation of a concentration camp, six photographs, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Liberation of a concentration camp, six photographs; Photograph #1, A concentration camp lane or area between two rows of barracks. The photograph is taken looking through barbed wire; Photograph #2, Soldiers walking down a concentration camp lane or area between two rows of barracks, backs facing the camera. The foreground shows the electric barbed wire fence; Photograph #3, A concentration camp lane or area between two rows of barracks. Emaciated corpses lie in the background; Photograph #4, Men walking by a pile of corpses, both nude and in uniform, in front of building 16 at a concentration camp. The man walking in the foreground is blurred; Photograph #5, Double photograph – On the right, American soldiers are putting dead bodies in the back of a truck; on the left, a photograph of a building at a concentration camp in the background and in the foreground are two soldiers carrying a corpse; Photograph #6, Close-up of a pile of dead corpses, some nude and some with uniform. The pile is next to a row of buildings at a concentration camp
Subject/Index Terms:
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Aftermath of liberation
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
US Military Personnel
Sub-Collection 11: RG-09.11, Various post-liberation photographs, 1945Add to your cart.

RG-09.11, Various post-liberation photographs

RG-09.11.01, Photograph, Monument to victims of the concentration camp Stutthof, Poland

RG-09.11.02, Photograph, Soldiers walking down a concentration camp lane or area between two rows of barracks, backs facing the camera

RG-09.11.03, Photograph, Monument to Victims of Chelmno death camp, Poland

RG-09.11.04, Photograph, Ebensee concentration camp, liberated prisoners, Austria, May 1945

RG-09.11.05, Photograph, Woebbelin and Ebensee camps liberated (left); prisoner freed from Woebbelin camp (right)

Subject/Index Terms:
Post-Liberation
Creators:
Concentration Camp Memorial Sites
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-09.11.01, Photograph, Monument to victims of the concentration camp Stutthof, PolandAdd to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a monument commemorating the victims of the concentration camp Stuttof in Poland.
Subject/Index Terms:
Holocaust Memorialization
Stutthof Concentration Camp Memorial Museum, Poland
Photographs, postwar, 1945 -- 1988
Creators:
Stutthof Concentration Camp Memorial Museum, Poland
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-09.11.02, Photograph, Soldiers walking down a concentration camp lane or area between two rows of barracks, backs facing the camera, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of soldiers walking down a concentration camp lane or area between two rows of barracks. The photograph was taken behind the opening of a barbed wire fence, which is visible in the forground of the photo.
Subject/Index Terms:
Liberation of concentration camps
Aftermath of liberation
concentration camp victims
concentration camp photographs
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Creators:
Allied Military Personnel
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-09.11.03, Photograph, Monument to Victims of Chelmno death camp, PolandAdd to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a monument to the victims of Chelmno death camp in Poland.
Subject/Index Terms:
Holocaust Memorialization
Post-Holocaust Commemoration
Holocaust, Jewish (1939 -- 1945), commemoration
Photographs
Creators:
Concentration Camp Memorial Sites
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-09.11.04, Photograph, Ebensee concentration camp, liberated prisoners, Austria, May 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a group of liberated prisoners at Ebensee concentration camp in Austria, May 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Liberation of concentration camps
Ebensee Concentration Camp
Aftermath of liberation
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Creators:
US Military personnel (May 1945)
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 5: RG-09.11.05, Photograph, Wobbelin and Ebensee camps liberated-left photo; prisoner freed from Wobbelin camp- right photo, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A double-photograph.  The photo on the left is of prisoners from the liberated Wobbelin and Ebensee concentration camps. One prisoner is seated and one is carrying another prisoner on his back. The photo on the right is of a freed prisoner from the Wobbelin concentration camp. The prisoner is only wearing a piece of cloth around his waste. The photos were taken in May 1945.
Subject/Index Terms:
Liberation of concentration camps
Ebensee Concentration Camp
Wobbelin Concentration Camp
Aftermath of liberation
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military personnel (May 1945)
Sub-Collection 12: RG-09.12, Kurt Wittler CollectionAdd to your cart.
Photo-documents of Nazi crimes in the concentration camps.
Subject/Index Terms:
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-09.12.01, Kurt Wittler, Nazi crimes in the camps, photo-documents, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of men burrying dead prisoners.
Subject/Index Terms:
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
German civilians digging mass graves for concentration camp victims
mass graves
concentration camp photographs
concentration camp victims
Creators:
Kurt Wittler
Sub-Collection 13: RG-09.13, Documentary from the USHMM, Nazi atrocities by the War Department, narrated, 1945Add to your cart.
A documentary film made by the US Army Signal Corps in 1945.  The films shows scenes post-Gardelegen Massacre and also German concentration camps and the victims of Auschwitz, Majdanek, Treblinka, Belsen, Buchenwald, and other camps. The documentary is narrated.
Subject/Index Terms:
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
History of the Holocaust, documentary films
Creators:
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive at USHMM (1945)
Hans Burger, Sam Winston, Billy Wilder (1945)
US War Department (1945)
Sub-Collection 15: RG-09.15, Anthony Hinds Collection, 1945Add to your cart.
Photographs of dead bodies and human remains in concentration camps post-liberation.
Subject/Index Terms:
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Liberation of concentration camps
Creators:
Allied Military Personnel
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-09.15.01, Photograph, Human remains, post-liberation of a concentration camp, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of dead bodies at a concentration camp after liberation.
Subject/Index Terms:
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Liberation of concentration camps
concentration camp victims
Aftermath of liberation
Creators:
Allied Military Personnel
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-09.15.02, Photograph, Corpses, post-liberation of a concentration camp, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of dead bodies lying on the floor at a concentration camp after liberation.
Subject/Index Terms:
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Liberation of concentration camps
concentration camp victims
Aftermath of liberation
Creators:
Allied Military Personnel
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-09.15.03, Photograph, Reconstruction of a body being dragged in a crematory, post-liberation of a concentration camp, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A reconstruction of a photograph of two Sonderkommando dragging an emaciated corpse in a crematory.
Subject/Index Terms:
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Liberation of concentration camps
Aftermath of liberation
concentration camp victims
Creators:
Allied Military Personnel
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-09.15.04, Photograph, Pile of human remains, post-liberation of a concentration camp, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a pile of human remains at a concentration camp post- liberation.
Subject/Index Terms:
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Liberation of concentration camps
concentration camp victims
Aftermath of liberation
Creators:
Allied Military Personnel
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 5: RG-09.15.05, Photograph, Cart filled with human remains being wheeled along a sidewalk, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a cart filled with human remains being wheeled along a sidewalk.  There is a house in the background.
Subject/Index Terms:
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Liberation of concentration camps
concentration camp victims
Aftermath of liberation
Creators:
Allied Military Personnel
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 6: RG-09.15.06, Photograph, Three men look down into a mass grave full of human remains, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of three men looking into a mass grave full of human remains.
Subject/Index Terms:
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Liberation of concentration camps
concentration camp victims
Aftermath of liberation
mass graves
Creators:
Allied Military Personnel
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 7: RG-09.15.07, Photograph, A cart filled  with human remains sits in front of a building in a concentration camp, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a cart filled with human remains.  The cart sits in front of a building in a concentration camp.
Subject/Index Terms:
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Liberation of concentration camps
Aftermath of liberation
concentration camp victims
Creators:
Allied Military Personnel
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 8: RG-09.15.08, Photograph, A truck containing disheveled clothing reads 'OFF LIMITS', 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a truck containing disheveled clothing.  Wirtten on the truck in large, all capital letters is: OFF LIMITS.
Subject/Index Terms:
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
concentration camp victims
Aftermath of liberation
Creators:
Allied Military Personnel
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 9: RG-09.15.09, Photograph, Three American soldiers in front of a pile of human remains, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of three American soldiers in front of a pile of human remains after the liberation of a concentration camp.
Subject/Index Terms:
Liberation of concentration camps
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
concentration camp victims
Aftermath of liberation
Creators:
Allied Military Personnel
Army Signal Corps, United States Army
US Military Personnel
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 10: RG-09.15.10, Photograph, Close-up of a pile of human remains, post-liberation of a concentration camp, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a close-up of a pile of human remains in a concentration camp post-liberation.
Subject/Index Terms:
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Liberation of concentration camps
concentration camp victims
Aftermath of liberation
Creators:
Allied Military Personnel
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 11: RG-09.15.11, Photograph, Close-up of a pile of remains with two clearly defined skulls in the foreground, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A close-up photograph of a pile of remains with two clearly defined skulls in the foreground at a concentration camp post-liberation.
Subject/Index Terms:
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Liberation of concentration camps
Aftermath of liberation
concentration camp victims
Creators:
Allied Military Personnel
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 12: RG-09.15.12, Photograph, Close-up of the lower half of a human skeleton in a crematory, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A close-up photograph of the lower half of a human skeleton in a crematory.
Subject/Index Terms:
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Liberation of concentration camps
concentration camp victims
Aftermath of liberation
Concentration Camp Crematorium
Creators:
Allied Military Personnel
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 13: RG-09.15.13, Photograph, Pile of tattered clothing and other personal belongings, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a pile of tattered clothing and other personal belongings.
Subject/Index Terms:
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Liberation of concentration camps
concentration camp victims
Aftermath of liberation
Creators:
Allied Military Personnel
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 14: RG-09.15.14, Photograph, Re-creation of a cremation, post-liberation of a concentration camp, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A recreation of a cremation in a concentration camp after liberation. Two men ate placing a corpse into a crematory.
Subject/Index Terms:
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Liberation of concentration camps
concentration camp victims
Concentration Camp Crematorium
Aftermath of liberation
Creators:
Allied Military Personnel
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 15: RG-09.15.15, Photograph, Two men lift the arm and leg of a corpse, post-liberation of a concentration camp, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of two men lifting the left arm and leg of a corpse in a concentration camp after liberation.
Subject/Index Terms:
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Liberation of concentration camps
concentration camp victims
Aftermath of liberation
Creators:
Allied Military Personnel
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 16: RG-09.15.16, Photograph, Reconstruction of a crematory scene, post-liberation of a concentration camp, 1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A Reconstruction of a crematory scene in a concentration camp after liberation.  Men are using tools to move a corpse into a crematory.
Subject/Index Terms:
Nazi-perpetrated massacres
Nazi crimes against humanity, peace, and war crimes
Liberation of concentration camps
Aftermath of liberation
concentration camp victims
Concentration Camp Crematorium
Creators:
Allied Military Personnel

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[Sub-Collection 2: RG-09.02, Mauthausen Collection, May 1945],
[Sub-Collection 3: RG-09.03, Majdanek Collection, July 1944],
[Sub-Collection 4: RG-09.04, Ravensbruck Collection, April 1945],
[Sub-Collection 5: RG-09.05, Dachau Collection, April 1945 -- 1947],
[Sub-Collection 6: RG-09.06, Gusen Collection, May 1945],
[Sub-Collection 7: RG-09.07, Liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, April 1945],
[Sub-Collection 8: RG-09.08, Dora-Nordhausen Collection, April 1945],
[Sub-Collection 9: RG-09.09, Landsberg Collection, April 1945],
[Sub-Collection 10: RG-09.10, Zeymour Herman Collection, March 1945],
[Sub-Collection 11: RG-09.11, Various post-liberation photographs, 1945],
[Sub-Collection 12: RG-09.12, Kurt Wittler Collection],
[Sub-Collection 13: RG-09.13, Documentary from the USHMM, Nazi atrocities by the War Department, narrated, 1945],
[Sub-Collection 15: RG-09.15, Anthony Hinds Collection, 1945],
[All]


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