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Report and photographs relating to post-liberation Buchenwald

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 1993.A.0075 | RG Number: RG-04.039.01

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Overview

Description: Contains information about the experiences of Major Donald Luby and others in a reconnaissance group that visited Buchenwald, including a photocopied report dated Apr. 18, 1945 concerning the post-liberation situation on the camp. Also includes photocopies of photographs, including one showing what appears to be an African-American soldier standing in front of a cart full of corpses. The photographs also contain scenes from Dachau and Ohrdruf camps.
Date: creation: 1945
Collection Creator: Donald Luby
Biography: Major Donald Luby, a veteran of an unidentified US Army unit, allegedly visited Buchenwald on 18 Apr. 1945. He was likely from Galveston, Texas.

Physical Details

Language: English
Genre/Form: Photographs.
Extent: 1 folder
System of Arrangement: Arrangement is thematic

Rights & Restrictions

Conditions on Access: There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
Conditions on Use: To the best of the Museum's knowledge, there are no known copyright restrictions on the material(s) in this collection, or the material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material.

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Concentration camps. Atrocities. African American soldiers. World War, 1939-1945--African Americans. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Personal Name: Luby, Donald.
Corporate Name: Dachau (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel Ohrdruf (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: According to the heading of the anonymous report, it was written "somewhere in Germany" on 18 Apr. 1945. Major Donald Luby, who according to the report, was a member of the reconnaissance group whose mission is described in the report, gave a copy to Selma Faver, an Army nurse. She in turn provided a photocopy to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum at an unknown date. Supposedly, Major Luby also took the photographs in the collection on the same day.

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