 Shortly before Victor Wegard passed away in December 1994, he gave the Center a set of slides containing pictures he had taken during the time he was stationed in Germany (1945-1946). The collection includes pictures documenting the atrocities committed at Flossenberg Concentration Camp which Victor helped liberate, along with pictures documenting his work as a member of the Dachau War Crimes Investigating Team. A small subset of these pictures is displayed here on the Center's website.
Two Wegard photos will be published in The Holocaust Chronicle,a 752 page, four-color volume scheduled for release in January 2000. The volume is comprised primarily of photos and captions and is dedicated to telling the story of the Holocaust (Publications International - Lincolnwood, Illinois). One Wegard photo shows German Colonel Joachim Piper serving a Thanksgiving dinner to members of the War Crimes Investigating Team at their headquarters in Nuremberg (November 1945). Another photo depicts German women digging for bodies at an unspecified location somewhere in Germany; these women had been conscripted into service by order of the American general, George Patton. Both photos are on the web site.
The Wegard photos have also been a source of interest to researchers studying Flossenberg Concentration Camp. Most notably, Peter Hegel, a young German scholar and filmmaker working on a video about Flossenberg, visited the Center in order to search through the slides for new information.
The center has a growing collection of material about the little-known concentration camp of Flossenberg.
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