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1. American soldiers and civilians looking at corpses at Buchenwald
Document | Accession Number: 1992.80
Date:
1945
…The photograph depicts a pile of emaciated dead bodies piled onto a truck with American soldiers and civilians standing around the truck. The…
2. Major Julian S. Perry collection
Document | Accession Number: 2015.302.1
Date:
creation: circa 1945
… First Lieutenant. Shipped to Iran, he served as a pool officer in the 3390th QM Truck Company, 516th Quartermaster Truck Battalion, leading African…
3. Einzelbestand Franz Zürni (1912-)
Document | Accession Number: 2011.219 | RG Number: RG-58.015
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1999
Alternate Title:
Franz Zürni papers
… Swiss compulsory military service (“Aktivdienst”). In the aftermath of World War II, Zürni delivered care shipments by truck on behalf of the…
4. Milton Shurr papers
Document | Accession Number: 1988.112.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1945
… supplies. He paid inmates in cigarettes to load and unload trucks. About forty Polish prisoners were recruited to find him transport. They stole two diesel…
5. Hirsch Henry Kolber identification card
Document | Accession Number: 1994.77
Date:
1945 June 15
… other surviving youth from Rabka were sent by truck to Krakow. They were housed in the ghetto, but each day they walked to Plaszow to build barracks for a…
6. Herman Neudorf papers
1994.83.2 Box 1 Folder 26 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1994.83.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1949
… Łódź and Hermann saw Jews beaten, loaded on trucks, and taken away. Soon, the Germans interned the Jews in a ghetto. On June 24, 1940, Hermann escaped to…
7. Henry Zguda papers
2004.374.1 Box 1 Image 14 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.374.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2003
… had papers and spoke German, they beat and arrested him and loaded him into a truck, where twenty friends from the YMCA sat. They were taken to…
8. Philip D. Vock papers
1997.11.13 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 1997.11.13
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1975
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
Your search appears on the following linked inventory items:
  • Series 1: Philip D. Vock papers 1941-1975, Undated
9. "I Remained Living"
Document | Accession Number: 2002.16
Date:
1963
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … Labor bureau at the Jewish Council delivered daily the requested number of workers. At 8 a.m., they were divided in groups and German trucks took them to…
10. Post-liberation Buchenwald photographs
1988.A.0116 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1988.A.0116 | RG Number: RG-04.068
Date:
creation: 1945
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … 1 Entry gate 1 Bodies of dead prisoners piled on a flatbed truck 1 Bodies of dead prisoners 1 Inmate standing near Block 57 1 Hitler hanged in effigy…
11. Howard Cwick papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.233 | RG Number: RG-09.069
Date:
inclusive: 1945-2005
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … liberation, 1945. Taken by Howard Cwick. 11. 1 copyprint. Close-up shot of dead, naked bodies piled on a truck. Buchenwald at liberation, 1945. Taken by Howard…
12. Selected records of postwar East German investigative court cases and trials to Nazi war crimes
Document | Accession Number: 2004.300 | RG Number: RG-14.068
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1990
Subtitle:
Records ZUV
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
Your search appears in a finding aid available at the Museum:
 …, Georg Willy Beyer RG-14.068*63 Folders 415-416 Otto Blume, Helmut Dass Appeals material of Otto Blume, truck driver and Abteilungsleiter in the wire ware…
13. Joseph Rosen papers
Document | Accession Number: 1996.139
Date:
creation: 1945-1946
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … SS personnel at Bergen Belsen after liberation. Uniformed women standing in formation with a truck and soldier in the background. 21. Copy photograph…
14. Dingfelder and Wolff families papers
1998.69 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1998.69
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1946
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … that they didn’t have transportation for everyone so those who were able please walk. The old & sick were invited on the trucks. Those able bodied…
15. Arthur Mayers photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.435.1
Date:
creation: 1945 April 12
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … uniformed soldier standing to the right of gallows in background, truck with “Concentration Camp Buchenwald” painted on the side door, Buchenwald…
16. Virginia Longest photographs
Document | Accession Number: 1991.235
Date:
creation: 1945
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … Buchenwald concentration camp, 1945. 6. Photograph taken at Buchenwald concentration camp of American military truck loaded with civilians. In the foreground…