Four young Buchenwald survivors stand next to a barbed wire fence.
Overview
- Caption
- Four young Buchenwald survivors stand next to a barbed wire fence.
- Photographer
- William B. Curtis
- Date
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April 1945
- Locale
- Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Diane Kathryn LavettSource Record ID: Collections: 2010.186.1
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Biography
- William Bostwick Curtis III was in the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA, during the Second World War. He had been a spy behind enemy lines earlier in the war and his specialty was ordinance. Bill was the official army photographer as the first wave of US Army entered Nordhausen and, earlier, possibly Buchenwald. His rank was 1st Lieutenant at that time, but he remained in the army and eventually retired as a full colonel. He was ordered to hand over all photographs and negatives but obviously did not comply. Bill never discussed his experiences during the Second World War, but he was haunted the rest of his life by them.
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- 2019-03-07 00:00:00
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