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Buchenwald

Buchenwald (1937-1945) was one of the largest German concentration camps established during the Holocaust. The camp encompassed at least 88 subcamps and interned approximately 250,000 prisoners, including Jews, prisoners of war, Jehovah's Witnesses, and political prisoners. Explore more content related to Buchenwald during the Holocaust. 

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A Jewish Brigade soldier with two members of "Kibbutz Buchenwald," a group of survivors from the Buchenwald concentration camp preparing ... [LCID: 02274]
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A Jewish Brigade soldier with two members of "Kibbutz Buchenwald"
A large pile of emaciated corpses. Piles of clothes can be seen in the background. A soldier in black clothing stands in the back with their hands on their face. To the right is an open truck bed with additional bodies.
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A pile of corpses in the Buchenwald concentration camp
Elevated view of a meadow. A long row of clothed corpses lie in the grass along the lower half of the meadow. A single soldier in uniform stands at the bottom of the photograph.
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A US soldier stands among the corpses of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave near Nammering
A watchtower and barracks at the Ohrdruf subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. [LCID: 15095]
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A watchtower and barracks at Ohrdruf
Abraham Lewent [LCID: 2724]
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Abraham Lewent
Gray and blue vertical striped long sleeve collared shirt.
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Abraham Lewent's prisoner jacket
Abram Kisielnicki [LCID: 4954]
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Abram Kisielnicki
Jewish refugees in front of the "Kibbutz Buchenwald" building, where Jews received agricultural training in preparation for life ... [LCID: 30118]
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Agricultural training before emigration to Palestine
American troops, including African American soldiers from the Headquarters and Service Company of the 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion, ... [LCID: 83761]
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American troops, including African American soldiers from the 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion
A large mound of ashes and bone fragments along the side of a wooden fence.
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Ashes and bones at the Buchenwald camp
A view of the double row of barbed-wire fences that surrounded the Ohrdruf camp, a subcamp in the Buchenwald camp system. [LCID: 10278]
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Barbed-wire fences surrounding Ohrdruf
Interior view of prisoners' barracks at the Ohrdruf subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. [LCID: 00645]
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Barracks at the Ohrdruf camp
A view of barracks in the Buchenwald concentration camp. [LCID: 75705]
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Barracks in the Buchenwald camp
Beno Helmer [LCID: 4294]
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Beno Helmer
The Berga-Elster labor camp, where Jewish-American prisoners of war were used as slave laborers in the mines. [LCID: 88907]
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Berga-Elster ("Schwalbe V")
Bernard Rechnitz [LCID: 2446]
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Bernard Rechnitz

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