Photos: Liberation, IIClick on a thumbnail image to view the
full photograph. American soldiers stand at the gates of the
Dachau concentration camp after its liberation. Slave laborers
in Buchenwald are liberated by the American Army in April, 1945.
They survived in spite of miserable conditions: overcrowding,
lack of food, hard labor, and psychological torture. Elie Wiesel
appears as the last full face on the second bunk from the
bottom. Survivors eagerly pull down the Nazi eagle from over the
entrance to the Mauthausen concentration camp, May 6, 1945. In
the women's camp at Mauthausen, survivors line up for soup, May
12, 1945. Survivors in a crowded Dachau barrack. Survivors in
Dachau distribute bread to their comrades after liberation.
Emaciated Jewish survivors, who had been confined to the
infirmary barracks at Ebensee, are gathered outside on May 7,
1945, the day after liberation. Sick survivors are evacuated
from the Woebbelin concentration camp where they will receive
medical attention, May 4, 1945. A