Lt. Col. J.W. Branch, Chief Surgeon of the 6th Armored Division, 3rd U.S. Army, dresses body sores of a Hungarian woman survivor in Penig, a sub-camp of Buchenwald.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 04445

Overview

Caption: Lt. Col. J.W. Branch, Chief Surgeon of the 6th Armored Division, 3rd U.S. Army, dresses body sores of a Hungarian woman survivor in Penig, a sub-camp of Buchenwald.

Upon the approach of American troops, SS guards evacuated all those prisoners who could still walk and left behind those too ill to move. Women in the camp suffered from starvation, typhus, diptheria, and tuberculosis.
Photographer: Sam Gilbert
Date: 1945 April 26
Locale: Penig, [Saxony] 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: 153-Case files 1944-49--box 288--file 12-536 to 12-541

Keyword: BUCHENWALD CONCENTRATION CAMPS HUNGARIANS MEDICAL CARE/NURSES/MEDICS PENIG SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) SUB-CAMPS SURVIVORS WOMEN
Photo Designation: MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Buchenwald Sub-Camps -- Other Buchenwald Sub-Camps -- Penig