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Henry B. |
“This was early April. We went up into Weimar, and I can recall there was a railroad station, and there were lots of corpses, and they had the striped clothing of inmates on. The smell was unforgettable. We went up the hill to Buchenwald, which was taken earlier that morning. The S.S. had mainly left, had only left a few young soldiers. There were scores of bodies. Many of the soldiers were afraid. Us medics went in first...The inmates were so thin, you could take your thumb and forefinger and put it around a person’s thighs...We had no idea what we would find. I had not been told where we were going. We knew nothing. Prior to this, we had no indication of this. We were not prepared for what we would find.”
Holocaust Testimony (HVT 2402)
Fortunoff Video Archive
for Holocaust Testimonies
Yale University Library