Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

After being liberated, prisoners at Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany managed to find a little food. This photo is one of a series of photographs taken by a rehabilitation officer of the U S. Army Chief Surgeon's office, when he arrived at the camp three days after Weimar was taken by the U S. Third Army. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Capt. William T. Drake, Commanding Officer, examines tubercular Russian slave laborer at the displaced persons center in Dortmund, Germany. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

This is one of a series of pictures at a German concentration camp in Wobbelin, Germany after its capture by troops of the 82nd Airborne Division, 9th U S Army. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

A group of bodies piled in a shed at a concentration camp near Ohrdruf, Germany. The camp was discovered when Third US Army troops took the town of Ohrdruf. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

A political prisoner ran into this barbed wire, was shot through the head, and his clothing burned from his body during his attempt to flee the S.S. Troops at Stalag Tekla near Leipzig, Germany. The camp prisoners were placed in a building that was then set on fire by S. S. troops. Anyone attempting to escape the building was shot. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

A dead inmate lies in the prisoners' living quarters. This one of a series of pictures taken at a German Concentration Camp in Wobbelin, Germany after its capture by troops of the 82nd Airborne Div., 9th US Army. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Concentration camp prisoners drinking and washing from one of the camp's pumps. This is one of the series of pictures taken at German concentration camp in Wobbelin, Germany, after its capture by troops of the 82nd Airborne Div., 9th US army.

Bodies of Jewish slave laborers in woods outside Neunberg, where they were marched from a Nazi Gestapo camp. Civilians of town were ordered to disinter and rebury victims in the city cemetery. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Women political prisoners, freed by advancing allied armies at their German prison camp at Belsen, Germany, wash their teeth with utensils supplied by their liberators. One woman at left is chopping up a door for fire wood. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Liberated prisoners in Wobbelin, Germany. This is one of a series of pictures taken at a German concentration camp in Wobbelin, Germany after its capture by troops of the 82nd Airborne Division, 9th US Army. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."