Buchenwald Slave Laborers Liberation
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
Buchenwald Slave Laborers Liberation [1] is a photograph of the liberation of slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp taken by Margaret Bourke-White after the end of WWII. It features Eli Wiesel.
The photo was taken in the spring of 1945, when Bourke-White traveled through a collapsing Germany with General George S. Patton. In this period, she arrived at Buchenwald, the notorious concentration camp. She is quoted as saying, "Using a camera was almost a relief. It interposed a slight barrier between myself and the horror in front of me." After the war, she produced a book entitled Dear Fatherland, Rest Quietly, a project that helped her come to grips with the brutality she had witnessed during and after the war.
The photo features 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. The very ill man lying at the back on the lower bunk is Max Hamburger, who had TBC and severe malnutrition. He recovered and became a psychiatrist in the Netherlands. Second row, seventh from left is Elie Wiesel. Shot taken 5 days after rescue.
![[1]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Buchenwald_Slave_Laborers_Liberation.jpg){kind=link}