J Malan Heslop was a photographer in the US Army Signal Corps. After the camps were liberated, the Signal Corps had a key role in documenting the atrocities of the Holocaust. Heslop captured the plight of survivors in the Ebensee subcamp of Mauthausen.
![US Army Signal Corps photographer J Malan Heslop types photo captions. [LCID: 62744]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/8433b133-54c5-44b7-aff8-ae8e9c65a6e0.jpg "US Army Signal Corps photographer J Malan Heslop types photo captions. [LCID: 62744]")
US Army Signal Corps photographer J Malan Heslop types photo captions. France, 1944.
Item View![Portrait of US Army Signal Corps photographer J Malan Heslop. [LCID: 62745]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/fc13da7a-d8d5-497c-8def-e34f43d10dc8.jpg "Portrait of US Army Signal Corps photographer J Malan Heslop. [LCID: 62745]")
Portrait of US Army Signal Corps photographer J Malan Heslop.
Item View![US Army Signal Corps photographers from Combat Unit 123 photograph ruins in the city of Naumburg, Germany. [LCID: 62769]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/5b9b7165-b00e-4819-baa7-1ce4beec94c7.jpg "US Army Signal Corps photographers from Combat Unit 123 photograph ruins in the city of Naumburg, Germany. [LCID: 62769]")
US Army Signal Corps photographers from Combat Unit 123 photograph ruins in the city of Naumburg, Germany. Photograph taken by J Malan Heslop. April 10, 1945.
Item View![Emaciated survivors in the Ebensee subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp suck on sugar cubes provided by American soldiers ... [LCID: 78366]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/dac28c99-a42d-4bda-9790-5ec8e54b64d4.jpg "Emaciated survivors in the Ebensee subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp suck on sugar cubes provided by American soldiers ... [LCID: 78366]")
Emaciated survivors in the Ebensee subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp suck on sugar cubes provided by US soldiers upon the liberation of the camp. Photograph taken by Signal Corps photographer J Malan Heslop. Ebensee, Austria, May 8, 1945.
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Four emaciated survivors sit outside in the newly liberated Ebensee concentration camp. Photograph taken by Signal Corps photographer J Malan Heslop. Ebensee, Austria, May 8, 1945.
Item View![Liberated prisoners at the Ebensee camp. Too weak to eat solid food, they drink a thin soup prepared for them by the US Army. [LCID: 78357]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/5f583c75-9561-4973-84ce-e4424a1ed87a.jpg "Liberated prisoners at the Ebensee camp. Too weak to eat solid food, they drink a thin soup prepared for them by the US Army. [LCID: 78357]")
Liberated prisoners at the Ebensee camp. Too weak to eat solid food, they drink a thin soup prepared for them by the US Army. Photograph taken by US Army Signal Corps photographer J Malan Heslop. Austria, May 8, 1945.
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