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<p>Wedding rings taken from prisoners. The rings were found near the <a href="/narrative/3956/en">Buchenwald</a> concentration camp following liberation by US Army soldiers. Germany, May 1945.</p>

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<p>A <a href="/narrative/4750/en">Jewish Brigade</a> soldier with two members of "Kibbutz Buchenwald." "Kibbutz Buchenwald" was a group of survivors from the <a href="/narrative/3956/en">Buchenwald</a> concentration camp who were preparing for agricultural work in Palestine. Antwerp, Belgium, 1946.</p>
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A Jewish Brigade soldier with two members of "Kibbutz Buchenwald"
<p>A pile of corpses in the <a href="/narrative/3956/en">Buchenwald</a> concentration camp after <a href="/narrative/2317/en">liberation</a>. Buchenwald, Germany, May 1945.</p> <p>Together with its many satellite camps, Buchenwald was one of the largest concentration camps established within the old German borders of 1937.</p>
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A pile of corpses in the Buchenwald concentration camp
<p>A US soldier stands among the corpses of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave in a ravine near Nammering. On April 19, 1945, a freight train with nearly 4,500 prisoners from Buchenwald pulled onto the railroad siding at Nammering. Hundreds of prisoners who had died on the train were buried in the mass grave along with the prisoners who were forced to carry the corpses to the ravine and were then shot. Germany, ca. May 6, 1945.</p>
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A US soldier stands among the corpses of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave near Nammering
<p>A watchtower and barracks at the <a href="/narrative/7757/en">Ohrdruf</a> subcamp of the <a href="/narrative/3956/en">Buchenwald</a> concentration camp. This photograph was taken after the US <a href="/narrative/7807/en">4th Armored Division</a> liberated the camp. Ohrdruf, Germany, June 1945.</p>
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A watchtower and barracks at Ohrdruf
<p>Abraham Lewent, who had been sent from the <a href="/narrative/2014/en">Warsaw</a> ghetto to <a href="/narrative/3168/en">Majdanek</a> and later transferred to several concentration camps in Germany, wore this jacket as part of the uniform issued to him upon his arrival in the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944.</p>
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Abraham Lewent's prisoner jacket
Abram Kisielnicki
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Abram Kisielnicki
<p>Jewish refugees in front of the "Kibbutz Buchenwald" building, where Jews received agricultural training in preparation for life in Palestine. Buchenwald displaced persons camp, Germany, ca. August 1946.</p>
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Agricultural training before emigration to Palestine
<p>Newly arrived prisoners at the Buchenwald concentration camp. Buchenwald, Germany, 1938-1940.</p>
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Arrival at Buchenwald
<p>One of many piles of ashes and bones found by US soldiers at the Buchenwald concentration camp. Germany, April 14, 1945.</p>
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Ashes and bones at the Buchenwald camp
<p>A view of the double row of barbed-wire fences that surrounded the <a href="/narrative/7757/en">Ohrdruf</a> camp, a subcamp in the <a href="/narrative/3956/en">Buchenwald</a> camp system. Ohrdruf, Germany, April 1945.</p>
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Barbed-wire fences surrounding Ohrdruf
<p>Interior view of prisoners' barracks at the Ohrdruf subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. This photograph was taken after liberation. Ohrdruf, Germany, April 13, 1945.</p>
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Barracks at the Ohrdruf camp
<p>A view of barracks in the <a href="/narrative/3956/en">Buchenwald</a> concentration camp. This photograph was taken after the <a href="/narrative/2317/en">liberation</a> of the camp. Buchenwald, Germany, after April 11, 1945.</p> <p>Buchenwald, along with its subcamps, was one of the largest concentration camps established within the old German borders of 1937.</p>
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Barracks in the Buchenwald camp
Beno Helmer
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Beno Helmer
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Berga-Elster ("Schwalbe V")
Bernard Rechnitz
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Bernard Rechnitz
<p>The bodies of former prisoners are stacked outside the crematorium in the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. Buchenwald, Germany, April 23, 1945.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This image is among the </span><a href="/narrative/8334/en"><span style="font-weight: 400;">commonly reproduced and distributed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and often extremely graphic, images of liberation. These photographs provided powerful documentation of the crimes of the Nazi era. </span></p>
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Bodies of victims outside the crematorium in Buchenwald

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