Keywords: Buchenwald Penig Survivor J.W. Branch Chief Surgeon U.S. Army 2.jpg Lt Col J W Branch Chief Surgeon of the 6th Armored Division 3rd U S Army dresses body sores of a Hungarian woman survivor in Penig a sub-camp of Buchenwald Upon the approach of American troops SS guards evacuated all those prisoners who could still walk and left behind those too ill to move Women in the camp suffered from starvation typhus diptheria and tuberculosis Photograph by Sam Gilbert Penig Saxony Germany Apr 26 1945 http //www ushmm org/ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration College Park PD-USGov Buchenwald liberation Holocaust survivors Images from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |