Holocaust: Photograph of Mauthausen Survivors Cheer the Soldiers of the U.S. Third Army With Banner

20th Century History

Filed In:

20th Century History

Photograph from the National Archives, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.

Mauthausen survivors cheer the soldiers of the Second Armored Division of the U.S. Third Army one day after their actual liberation. The banner reads: "The Spanish Anti-Fascists Salute the Liberating Forces." According to P. Serge Choumoff, an historian and survivor of Mauthausen, this event was recreated at the request of General Eisenhower. (May 6, 1945)