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Death Mills

Online Sources: Liberation

Liberation Poster Set - U.S. Holocaust Museum
United States Holocaust Museum Encyclopedia
Photos: Liberation, II
Photos: Liberation, I
The Liberation of Auschwitz: Holocaust
The Liberation of Majdanek : Holocaust
Abe L. Plotkin Collection (liberation of Ohrdruf Concentration Camp) (Univ. of Scranton) Materials from Abe L. Plotkin's United States Army experience in Germany during the last weeks of World War II and the ensuing months, including photographs taken of the Ohrdruf concentration camp and of Holocaust survivors (displaced persons), as well as correspondence to and from Plotkin as the war was ending and after liberation of the camps. The collection also includes materials related to Plotkin’s volunteer work as a Holocaust educator and some material from his involvement with Allied Services, a rehabilitation hospital.
Charles Cross Collection of Buchenwald Concentration Camp Photographs, 1945 (Lowcountry Digital Library) A black and white photograph taken at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany shortly after its liberation in April 1945. The photo is of a boy between two liberated inmates of Buchenwald.
Holocaust Rescue and Relief: Digitized Records of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (Harvard University) In 1939, the Rev. Waitstill Sharp, a Unitarian minister in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and his wife, Martha, a social worker, agreed to travel to Prague to investigate reports of a humanitarian crisis. From these humble but brave beginnings, the Unitarian Service Committee was born. During and after World War II, the Service Committee aided hundreds of displaced persons in Europe. They established food and clothing distribution centers, hospitals, and homes for children. They also aided hundreds of people in their efforts to leave war-torn Europe and establish new lives for themselves in the United States. The Andover-Harvard Theological Library is the official archive for the records of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC). In a project jointly funded by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine in Paris, the library completed a massive digitization project of roughly 257 boxes of archival UUSC material dating from 1939 to 1967. In total, about 238,000 documents and 3,100 photographs were scanned. Digitizing this material has helped to preserve it for future generations, and has made it available to researchers throughout the world. To read more about this digitization project, see the Harvard Gazette. To view the digital folders, click on the collection name, read the Scope and Content note, go to the Container List, and browse the folders that have been digitized. Click on the "See digital images" link to open a folder. Once you are in a folder, use the red forward and back arrows to view the contents. Image size may be adjusted as well.