Translation of complete caption: The ranks of contemporary eyewitnesses are thinning out with the passage of time. Luxembourgish inmates in Ebensee concentration camp after the liberation -- with the crematorium in the background (from left to right: Abbey Robert Maroldt, Jean-Pierre Kolbach, Georges Biwer, Pierre Lenz, Oscar Lewin, Jängli Weyer, Nicolas Berchem, Jängi Majerus, and, kneeling, Metty Dockendorf).
Jaengi = Luxembourgish diminutive for Jean. Photograph: Luxembourger Wort, April or May 1985, probably 14 April: The same photograph was published several times.

Last photo: Overweight, happy, healthy Luxembourgers posing in front of railway goods van or freight car, returning from Unterwellenborn Saalfeld Umsiedlungslager in Thüringen, published in Luxembourger Wort on April 26, 1985, p. 11, "Virun Joer: Liberatioun... D'Liberatioun vun Unterwellenborn/Saalfeld an Thürigen de 14 Abrell 1945, wei ech se erlieft hun als Emsiedler" ["The Liberation of Unterwellenborn/Saalfeld, Thüringen, on 14 April 1945, as experienced by a resettled person."] Photo bears caption: Heimkehr [Homecoming]: 22 May 1945.

NOTE: "Umsiedlung" [resettlement/deportation] is alleged to have been a fiendishly clever Nazi euphemism for "extermination". See also Graphics and Comments to Franke-Griksch Report.

See also "Buchenwald Inmate who Lost Weight after his Release"

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