Newly liberated inmates crowd into a barracks in Buchenwald.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 09763

Overview

Caption: Newly liberated inmates crowd into a barracks in Buchenwald.

Original caption reads, "Photograph of a barracks in the German prison camp at Weimar, Germany, shows the crowded living conditions of the prisoners. The building, which would normally house 50 people, was occupied by about 350. The camp was taken by troops of the U.S. Third Army."
Date: 1945 April 14
Locale: Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 111-SC-203462 (Album 3219)
Bettmann Archive [licensed by Getty Images]

Copyright: Exclusively with source

Source Record ID: 111-SC-203462 (Album 3219)
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Benjamin Ferencz

Source Record ID: Collections: 1994.A.037

Second Record ID: Collections: RG-12.019

Keyword: BARRACKS BUCHENWALD CONCENTRATION CAMPS CROWDS INTERIORS PHOTOGRAPHS (SIGNAL CORPS) SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) SURVIVORS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Buchenwald -- LIBERATION -- Survivors -- Inside Barracks