11 April 2020 – 75th Anniversary
of the liberation of the
Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps
Liberated prisoners with a U.S. soldier (centre) in a barrack at the Little Camp, 14 April 1945
Two liberated prisoners in front of a rocket part, 12 April 1945
An American paramedic finds survivors lying amidst the dead in the Boelcke-Kaserne subcamp, April 1945
American soldiers in a barrack with dead and dying prisoners, April 1945
A Belgian survivor in the Boelcke-Kaserne in Nordhausen, April 1945
A liberated child in front of the ruins of the Boelcke-Kaserne in Nordhausen, 12 April 1945
Prisoners murdered by the SS during a death march from Mittelbau-Dora in Gardelegen, 21 April 1945
Former prisoners the day after their release from the infirmary, 12 April 1945
Survivors in the Dr. Stein Sanatorium in Sülzhayn near Nordhausen after the liberation, undated
Men from Nordhausen were ordered to carry the dead from the Boelcke-Kaserne subcamp to the municipal cemetery for burial on 16 April 1945, under orders from the U.S. Army
Funeral service for the concentration camp’s dead at the Ehrenfriedhof (honorary cemetery) in Nordhausen, established following orders by the U.S. Army, 13 May 1945
The survivor Jozef Huybreghts is welcomed back in his Belgian hometown of Turnhout, 23 May 1945