Title
Liberation of Buchenwald
Object ID
2012.1.583
Object Name
Photograph
Date
1945
Files
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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