Liberation of Buchenwald

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Object ID

2012.1.583

Object Name

Photograph

Date

1945

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Description

Black and white photograph depicting a crowded bunk of male prisoners on the right, and some standing on the left.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Men on wooden pallets - their beds - in the barracks of Buchenwald oncentration amp post liberation. A photograph - a Time-Life Pictures reprint - taken by Margaret Bourke-White for Life Magazine of recently liberated male prisoners. Bourke-White had been one of four female photojournalists to cover the War and its aftermath. Elie Wiesel, author and winner of the Nobel Prize, is seventh from left in the middle row.

Dimensions

14 x 14"

Keywords

Buchenwald, Prisoners, Margaret Bourke-White

Subcollection

Post

Recommended Citation

"Liberation of Buchenwald" (1945). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2012.1.583.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1843

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