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Buchenwald

Stories

Introduction
Block 66 at Buchenwald: The Clandestine Barracks to Save Children
Elie Wiesel
Rabbi Israel Meir Lau
Edward R. Murrow's Report From Buchenwald
Experiments with Poison
Incendiary Bomb Experiments
Karl Otto Koch
Ilse Koch
Frau Ilse Koch, General Lucius Clay, and Human-Skin Atrocities
Spotted Fever (Fleckfieber) Experiments
The Doctors Trial - Defendants
Survivors
Valuables
Human Remains
Corpses
Doctors' Trial
Roll Call
Generals Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley
Newly Arrived Prisoners
Returning From Work
SS Guard
Forced Laborers
Medical Personnel Experiment on a Prisoner
Emaciated Survivors of the Buchenwald
Liberated Prisoners
Inmate # 3120 Postcard
Registration for newly-arrived prisoners at Buchenwald.
Russian Survivor Identifies Buchenwald Camp Guard
Ilse Koch, wife of the former commandant of Buchenwald concentration camp, on trial at Dachau. She was known as the “Bitch of Buchenwald.”
U.S. Congressional Committee
New Prisoners At Buchenwald Line Up For Registration (1937-1941)
Topf Crematorium
Washing and Shaving of Prisoners at Buchenwald (1940)
The Buchenwald Orchestra (April 11, 1945)
Photographs from an American Soldier at Buchenwald (1945)
Liberating Buchenwald
American World War II Air Force Pilots Were Prisoners at Buchenwald
RUSSIAN P.O.W. MURDERS
Brutal Soviet-Run Prisons
ATROCITY AT THEKLA-1 (April 8, 1945)
François Amoudruz
Shavuot Prayers
Survivors of the Buchenwald Camp
SS Guard torturing inmates in the Buchenwald

Introduction

Block 66 at Buchenwald: The Clandestine Barracks to Save Children

Elie Wiesel

Rabbi Israel Meir Lau

Edward R. Murrow's Report From Buchenwald

Experiments with Poison

Incendiary Bomb Experiments

Karl Otto Koch

Ilse Koch

Frau Ilse Koch, General Lucius Clay, and Human-Skin Atrocities

Spotted Fever (Fleckfieber) Experiments

The Doctors Trial - Defendants

Survivors

Valuables

Human Remains

Corpses

Doctors' Trial

Roll Call

Generals Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley

Newly Arrived Prisoners

Returning From Work

SS Guard

Forced Laborers

Medical Personnel Experiment on a Prisoner

Emaciated Survivors of the Buchenwald

Liberated Prisoners

Inmate # 3120 Postcard

Registration for newly-arrived prisoners at Buchenwald.

Russian Survivor Identifies Buchenwald Camp Guard

Ilse Koch, wife of the former commandant of Buchenwald concentration camp, on trial at Dachau. She was known as the “Bitch of Buchenwald.”

U.S. Congressional Committee

New Prisoners At Buchenwald Line Up For Registration (1937-1941)

Topf Crematorium

Washing and Shaving of Prisoners at Buchenwald (1940)

The Buchenwald Orchestra (April 11, 1945)

Photographs from an American Soldier at Buchenwald (1945)

Liberating Buchenwald

American World War II Air Force Pilots Were Prisoners at Buchenwald

RUSSIAN P.O.W. MURDERS

Brutal Soviet-Run Prisons

ATROCITY AT THEKLA-1 (April 8, 1945)

François Amoudruz

Shavuot Prayers

Survivors of the Buchenwald Camp

SS Guard torturing inmates in the Buchenwald