The Liberators: America's Witnesses to the Holocaust (54 page)

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ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

Unless otherwise indicated below, World War II–era and recent photographs of interviewees were provided courtesy of the interviewees.

Drawings of Salzwedel courtesy of Walter H. Chapman.

Ohrdruf photograph from the archive of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland.

Buchenwald survivors photograph by First Sergeant Percy Smith, courtesy of Gerald Virgil Myers.

Warren Priest 2007 photograph courtesy of Ken Williams,
Concord Monitor
.

Salzwedel photograph by Sergeant Maurice Miller, courtesy of his son, Mark Miller.

Photograph of Eisenhower at Ohrdruf from the USHMM, courtesy of Harold Royall.

Gardelegen photograph from the USHMM, courtesy of Vern Ecklund.

Gardelegen photograph from the USHMM, courtesy of the photographer, John Irving Malachowski.

Dachau photograph from
Allemagne, avril–mai 1945: Photographies d’Eric Schwab
, USHMM, courtesy of Michael Caskey.

Ampfing photograph courtesy of Nathan Melman.

Ludwigslust photograph from the USHMM, courtesy of Dr. Alfred B. Sundquist.

Moran/Petersohn photograph courtesy of Brian Petersohn.

Memorial photograph courtesy of 157th Regiment, 45th Infantry Division veteran John R. Hallowell.

Recent photos of the following interviewees were provided by the author: Irzyk, Feinberg, Myers, Rappaport, Nachman, Schutz, Eberhart, Eisenstein, Chaney, Fasnacht, Brooks, Fellman, Storch, Friedenberg, Lubin, Ellmann, and Krenkler.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Following a thirty-five-year career as a journalist and producer in radio, public television, and commercial TV, during which he won the George Foster Peabody Award, the DuPont-Columbia Citation, several Emmy Awards, a Writers Guild Award, several PBS and CPB Awards, as well as many other awards for documentaries and specials that his wife says she’s tired of dusting, M
ICHAEL
H
IRSH
opted to write his way out of television.
The Liberators
is his fifth nonfiction book. He was embedded with U.S. Air Force pararescue and combat search-and-rescue units in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan to write
None Braver: U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen in the War on Terrorism
. In 1966, Hirsh was a combat correspondent with the Army’s 25th Infantry Division at Cu Chi, Vietnam, where he was awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge. He and his wife, Karen, live in Punta Gorda, Florida. He can be contacted at
[email protected]
.