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Authors: Michael Hirsh

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Rood, Coenraad  
Ampfing  
Survivor  
Rose, James  
Dachau  
42nd ID  
Ross, Irv  
Dachau  
45th ID  
Salvio, Sal  
Buchenwald  
4th AD  
Saunders, Harry  
Mauthausen  
11th AD  
Schlocker, Irvin  
Landsberg/Kaufering  
63rd ID  
Schmidt, Max  
Buchenwald  
80th ID  
Schutz, Bernard  
Landsberg  
5th Army  
Selwood, Clifford  
Mühldorf  
99th ID  
Serian, Leo  
Hersbruck/Flossenbürg  
65th ID  
Sherman, George  
Mauthausen  
11th AD  
Silva, Milton R.  
Buchenwald  
120th Evac  
Simonson, Ted  
Dachau  
42nd ID  
Snodgrass, Harry  
Buchenwald  
1st Army HQ  
Steinfeld, Manfred  
Wöbbelin  
82nd Abn  
Stephens, John  
Mauthausen  
11th AD  
Storch, Bernhard  
Sachsenhausen, Poland  
Polish army  
Straba, Robert  
Mühldorf  
14th AD  
Sunshine, Morris  
Nordhausen  
104th ID  
Sutton, William  
Dachau  
45th ID  
Terepka, Edward A.  
Dachau  
45th ID  
Timmer, Donald H.  
Ohrdruf  
89th ID  
Tripp, Owen  
Falkenau/Flossenbürg  
9th AD  
Vanacore, Joe  
Ohrdruf  
4th AD  
Verheye, Pierre C. T.  
Buchenwald  
Survivor  
Vitalone, Gabriel  
Ohrdruf  
89th ID  
Waltzer, Joel S.  
Landsberg  
63rd ID  
Wannemacher, Paul  
Flossenbürg  
90th ID  
Waters, Melvin  
Bergen-Belsen  
AFS  
Weiskircher, Russel  
Dachau  
45th ID  
Whiteway, Curtis  
Mühldorf  
99th ID  

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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]
.

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