General Dwight Eisenhower and other high ranking U.S. Army officers view the bodies of prisoners who were killed during the evacuation of Ohrdruf, while on a tour of the newly liberated concentration camp.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 04650

Overview

Caption: General Dwight Eisenhower and other high ranking U.S. Army officers view the bodies of prisoners who were killed during the evacuation of Ohrdruf, while on a tour of the newly liberated concentration camp.

Among those pictured is Ignaz Feldmann (wearing a dark coat and scarf, to the left of General Eisenhower) . He was a survivor of Westerbork, Terezin, Auschwitz, and Ohrdruf camps. He was also a player on the famed Hakoah Vienna soccer teams of the 1920s and 30s.
Photographer: William Newhouse
Date: 1945 April 12
Locale: Ohrdruf, [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-203545
Published Source: The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust... - Berenbaum, Michael - Little, Brown and Company - p. 9

Keyword: BRADLEY, OMAR BUCHENWALD CONCENTRATION CAMPS CORPSES DUTCH EISENHOWER, DWIGHT DAVID INSPECTIONS MILITARY OFFICERS OHRDRUF PATTON, GEORGE SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) SUB-CAMPS SURVIVORS
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Buchenwald Sub-Camps -- Ohrdruf -- LIBERATION -- Inspection/Investigation