We would like to thank Crown Family Philanthropies, Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation, the Claims Conference, EVZ, and BMF for supporting the ongoing work to create content and resources for the Holocaust Encyclopedia. View the list of donor acknowledgement.
![General Dwight D. Eisenhower (center, right) views the corpses of victims of the Ohrdruf camp. [LCID: 23005a]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/8913a24e-7842-4e4d-b41e-c3d75d20b312.jpeg)
![Abraham Klausner [LCID: akl1038m]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/a164f767-2159-44b7-8995-ac2a23dcc818.jpg)
![American troops, including African American soldiers from the Headquarters and Service Company of the 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion, ... [LCID: 83761]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/c344ebdf-5d87-452c-8d2c-92eeccb7ecf6.jpeg)
![American soldiers and liberated prisoners at the main entrance of the Buchenwald concentration camp. [LCID: 0237]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/7d739885-dd4e-45a9-b47b-c5405490d0b7.jpg)
![Frank Hamburger [LCID: wlc00003]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/7a64ec16-08a3-4f89-811c-081a76e4be26.jpg)
![Insignia of the 45th Infantry Division. The 45th Infantry Division gained its nickname, "Thunderbird" division, from the gold thunderbird. [LCID: n05638]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/ef3e9814-680d-4f62-84f4-fb1d6b0d5d62.jpg)
![James Rose [LCID: wlc00004]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/fa47a7b4-da36-443e-b72d-cd3315ecf8ba.jpg)
![American soldiers enter the Buchenwald concentration camp following the liberation of the camp. [LCID: 09807]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/6b47963c-e447-44c8-a317-b28c1668ba6c.jpeg)
![Survivors of Mauthausen cheer American soldiers as they pass through the main gate of the camp. [LCID: 68210]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/30768b6e-5a08-4a9a-948d-27e4e51517ec.jpeg)
![Robert Patton [LCID: wlc00005]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/2b940c20-1a02-4deb-a3a4-3ecc63b165e4.jpg)