Image:Buchenwald Slave Laborers Liberation.jpg

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Description

These are slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp near Jena; many had died from malnutrition when U.S. troops of the 80th Division entered the camp.
Source

U.S. Defence Visual Information Center, image #HD-SN-99-02764; NARA image ARC #535561, file #208-AA-206K(31).
Date

April 16, 1945
Author

Private H. Miller. (Army)
Permission
(Reusing this image)
Public domain This image is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made during the course of the person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.
Other versions Image:Buchenwald Survivors 74607.jpg is lower resolution, but has a serial number that seems to have been removed from the DVIC version here

Description from a duplicate image uploaded to en:, by en:User:Zoe, en:User:Ellywa and en:User:Gabbe:

Jewish slave laborers at Buchenwald. The very ill man lying at the back on the lower coughes is nl:Max Hamburger, who came with TBC and malnourished from the camp. He recovered and became a psychiatrist in the Netherlands. Second row, seventh from left is Elie Wiesel.
Nederlands: Gevangenen in Buchenwald, bij de bevrijding 16 april 1945 Helemaal rechts onderaan, op de rug liggend, ziet men de latere psychiater Max Hamburger. Geheel verzwakt door tuberculose en minder dan 30 kilogram wegend kwam hij terug in Nederland. Elie Wiesel is in de tweede rij, zevende van links

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