In general, I try to avoid using graphic images as much as possible. Not because I think they are not important, but because they are. and solely because I find it difficult to erase them from my memories.
However, it is important every now and then to be reminded of the unfathomable horrors.
Buchenwald was liberated on 11 April 1945. This was really only a physical liberation because, for most of the survivors, the horrors remained with them in their memories and sometimes in their dreams. Also, those who liberated the camp were never freed from the horrors they encountered.
Below is the testimony of Edward R. Murrow, a journalist and one of the men who was there for the liberation.
This is Buchenwald, 11 April 1945
Permit me to tell you what you would have seen and heard if you were with me on Thursday. It will not be…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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