Liberated prisoners sunbathing in Buchenwald concentration camp, Weimer, 1945

Gift of Ronello Brown, from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
Description: 

Photograph. Liberated male prisoners sitting and lying on the ground next to a hospital ward. Personal caption on reverse: "18. Inmates - outside one of the semi-hospital wards. They are too weak to move around much but are absorbing some of the good óle’sunshine." Buchenwald, Weimar, Germany. 1945

Image Information

Donor: 
Mr. Ronello Brown
Accession Number: 
2008.002.020
Date: 
1945
Location: 
Hometown: 
Branch: 
Theater of Service: 
European Theater of Operations (ETO)
Unit: 
197th Antiaircraft Automatic Weapons Battalion (Self-Propelled)
Campaign / Event: 
Holocaust (1933-1945)
POW / KIA: 
Topical Subjects: 
Holocaust survivors--Germany
Concentration camps--Germany
Collection Level: 
Items from the service of Ronello Brown, who fought with the 197th Antiaircraft Automatic Weapons Battalion in Normandy, Northern France, and central Europe. Mr. Brown received the Good Conduct Bronze Star and the French Croix de Guerre.
Geography: 
Buchenwald
Latitude: 
51.017
Longitude: 
11.250
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Holocaust survivors--Germany
Concentration camps--Germany