Liberation of the camps:  images

Prisoners of Auschwitz greet their liberators (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum -  USHMM)

The corpses of prisoners lie in the snow outside a barracks in Auschwitz-Birkenau immediately after the liberation.USHMM

A group of female survivors trudge through the snow immediately after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. USHMM

Liberated inmates behind the barbed wire fence.USHMM

Corpses of women piled up on the floor of Blok 11 USHMM

Prisoners watch as the chimney of the Siemens factory in the Bobrek labor camp is brought down by an explosion.USHMM

Group portrait of former political prisoners in the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp. USHMM

Survivors in an unidentified camp [possibly Ebensee] soon after liberation. USHMM