Quite a basic text only site, and not very intuitive to navigate. I’m not sure of its purpose or hertitage, but there are some useful (if not full referenced) testimonies from different US soldiers of different divisions.
Museum of Broadcast Communication, US
This museum hosts a free archive of thousands of American tv and radio broadcasts in its archives. You can access them all online by creating a free and quick account.
Results for an arbitrary search of ‘Holocaust’ brings results for 16 full programmes, including the 1978 series Holocaust (NBC, starring Meryl Streep).
I continue to be staggered by the sheer volume of what is available to us if you just search a bit deeper!
“Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies is a collection of over 4,400 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust. Part of Yale University’s department of Manuscripts and Archives, the archive is located at Sterling Memorial Library”
Most of the content is onsite at the Sterling Memorial Library(not much good for me in London!), but some edited thematic videos and excerpts for single testimonies are available, including one of a liberator at Mauthausen.
http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/index.html
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Yale University Library
PO Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Postscript: The testimonies in the archive have been analysed with great sensitivity and understanding by Lawrence L. Langer in his book Holocaust Testimonies. Reviewed in NY Times here: http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/specials/langer-holocaust.html
I have found this website to be a bit temperamental, but do persevere. Didn’t seem to like Google Chrome, so might be better in a different browser (Firefox, Safari, IE etc)
“The USF Libraries Oral History Program is currently processing the 150 interviews that were conducted by author Michael Hirsh as primary source material for his book The Liberators.
The first 31 interviews and transcripts are now available online. The collection will continue to grow as interviews are processed.”
-, Beth Hatefutsoth. Return to Life The Holocaust Survivors: From Liberation to Rehabilitation. Tel Aviv: Nahum Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, 1985.
Abzug, Robert H. Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Cam. Chapel Hill: Oxford Univ Press, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A., 1985.
Allport, Dr. Alan. Demobbed: Coming Home After World War Two. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
Anne Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl. New York: Pocket Books, 1953.
Army, U S. Seventh. Dachau Liberated: The Official Report. Seattle: Inkling Books, 2002.
Aronson, Alex, and Alan Mendelson. From Bergen-Belsen to Baghdad: The Letters of Alex Aronson. Oakville, ON, Canada: Mosaic Pr, 1992.
Belsen 1945: New Historical Perspectives. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2007.
Belsen in History and Memory. 1 ed. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Belton, Neil. The Good Listener : A Life Against Cruelty. 1st ed ed. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999.
Berger, Alan L.. Bearing Witness to the Holocaust, 1939-1989 (Symposium Series). Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1991.
Bridgman, Jon. The End of the Holocaust: The Liberation of the Camps. London: Areopagitica Pr, 1990.
Browning, Christopher R.. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. New York: Harper Perennial, 1993.
Gollancz, Victor. WHAT BUCHENWALD REALLY MEANS. First edition. ed. London: Gollancz, 1945.
Goodman, Cecily, and Leslie H. Hardman. The Survivors: The Story of the Belsen Remnant. Portland: Mitchell Vallentine & Company, 2009.
Hitchcock, William I.(Author). The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe  [BITTER ROAD TO FREEDOM] [Hardcover]. New York City: Free Press, 2008.
Leff, Laurel. Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Levy, Isaac. Witness to Evil: Bergen-Belsen, 1945. London, Great Britain: Peter Halban Publishers Ltd, 1995.
Relief of Belsen, April 1945: Eyewitness Accounts. 1991. Reprint, London: Imperial War Museum, 1991.
Richard Dimbleby. Broadcaster. By His Colleagues. 0: British Broadcasting Company, 1966.
Selzer, Michael. Deliverance day: The last hours at Dachau. 1st ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1978.
Shephard, Ben. After Daybreak: The Liberation of Belsen, 1945. London: Pimlico, 2006.
The Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps 1945: Eyewitness Accounts of the Liberators. New York: Government Printing Office, 1987.
http://college.usc.edu/vhi/education/livinghistories/lesson.php?nid=712
“Young American soldier Howard Cwick, son of Polish Jewish immigrants, unexpectedly arrived at the gates of Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945, armed with a rifle and his camera. In his testimony, Howard provides an eloquent, striking account of his experiences. The lesson’s theme, Eyewitness to History, explores Howard’s roles as eyewitness, liberator, and activist.”
USHMM have various internal and external links to liberation information and sources.
Starting with their list of links, last updated Dec 2008
(the following is reproduced word for word from their website http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/weblinks/?content=liberation
1 104th Infantry Division: Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp
http://www.104infdiv.org/concamp.htm
Chronicles the liberation of Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in Nordhausen, Germany by the 104th Infantry Division, United States Army. Includes photographs, eyewitness accounts by liberators and survivors, and links to related Web sites. Part of the Web site of the National Timberwolf Association, an association of World War II veterans of the 104th Infantry.
2 11th Armored Division
http://www.11tharmoreddivision.com/
Provides a history of the military division, also known as the “Thunderbolts,” that liberated Mauthausen concentration camp in May 1945. Includes photographs, recent articles, and information on current activities.
3 89th Infantry Division: Ohrdruf Concentration Camp
http://www.89infdivww2.org/ohrdruf/
Web site chronicling the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp near Erfurt, Germany, by the 89th Infantry Division, U.S. Army. Includes photographs and eyewitness accounts by liberators and survivors.
4 The Center of Military History (United States Army)
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/default.htm
Web site of the official history center for the United States Army. Provides contact information for its archives and document collection, an online archives, information about CMH publications and exhibitions, and more.
5 Liberators: 761st Tank Battalion (film)
http://members.aol.com/dignews/l-promo.htm
Companion Web site to the documentary film and book Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II, which chronicles African American units that helped liberate concentration camps, particularly the 761st Tank Battalion. Documents some of the historical controversy and debate surrounding the film and book, and provides links to additional resources.
6 Memory of the Camps (film)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/camp/
Companion Web site to a documentary by the public television program, Frontline, on the liberation of concentration camps, featuring footage originally produced in 1945 but not aired until 1985. Includes the full transcript of the film, press reactions, and links to related sites.
7 The Seventy-First Came to Gunskirchen Lager
http://home.gwi.net/~nmooney/71st_html/
Independent Web site featuring a scanned and digitized copy of the booklet The Seventy-First Came to Gunskirchen Lager, originally produced in 1945 by the 71st Army Infantry. Documents the liberation of Gunskirchen, a subcamp of Mauthausen in Austria, on May 4, 1945. Includes photographs and eyewitness accounts. Created by John Mooney, a relative of one of the American soldiers who liberated the camp.
8United States Army Military History Institute
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/ahec/
Web site of the United States Army Military Institute, the part of the United States Army War College entrusted with preserving the Army’s history and providing access to historical research materials. Features an online document repository, finding aids, contact information for research assistance, and an extensive list of links regarding military history.
Liberation themed video clips, films and tv programmes. Some are online, some are on DVD, some are not easily available.
— LIBERATION, or NIGHTMARE’S END: THE LIBERATION OF THE CAMPS
Rex Bloomstein http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/522383 Cannot get on DVD or on demand
— LIBERATION, part of the Simon Wiesenthal Collection of DVDs
Available at Play.com http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/6736010/Simon-Wiesenthal-Box-Set/Product.html?_$ja=tsid:11518|cc:|prd:6736010|cat:Movie+>+DVD+>+Box+Sets
— DAYS OF REMEMBRANCE: HONORING LIBERATION
Video online at USHMM http://www.ushmm.org/remembrance/dor/years/2010/liberation/
–MEMORY OF THE CAMPS
Sixty years ago, in the spring of 1945, Allied forces liberating Europe found evidence of atrocities which have tortured the world’s conscience ever since. As the troops entered the German concentration camps, they made a systematic film record of what they saw. Work began in the summer of 1945 on the documentary, but the film was left unfinished. FRONTLINE found it stored in a vault of London’s Imperial War Museum and, in 1985, broadcast it for the first time using the title the Imperial War Museum gave it, “Memory of the Camps.”
Watch online or buy DVD http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/camp/
“On the 65th anniversary of the entry of the Red Army to the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, let us share two completely different takes on what happened on January 27, 1945 — a day as bitterly cold as today.” Wall Street Journal:
http://blogs.wsj.com/new-europe/2010/01/27/auschwitz-and-its-soviet-liberators/
Auschwitz Liberator Saluted by Russia. CNN:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/01/26/auschwitz.liberator/index.html#cnnSTCText
Harold Osmond le DruillenecThe only Briton found alive in Belsen describes his experiences there.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/holocaust/5106.shtml
WW2 Peoples War – Belsen
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/50/a8378850.shtml
Buchenwald Concentration Camp
Seven days after its liberation, the horrors of Buchenwald are made known.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/holocaust/5107.shtml
Richard Dimbleby Describes Belsen
The broadcaster recounts the horrors of Belsen.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/holocaust/5115.shtml
Patrick Gordon Walker | Belsen Facts and Thoughts
The survivors and the soldiers who relieved Belsen bear witness to the horrors of the camp
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/holocaust/5111.shtml
Personal Touch | Helen Bamber
Helen Bamber shares her memories of the liberation of Belsen.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/holocaust/5119.shtml
News Directive on Reporting the Concentration Camps
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/holocaust/5133.shtml
Patrick Gordon Walker’s Belsen Report
A harrowing and moving account of the conditions in Belsen.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/holocaust/5136.shtml
Memo from Patrick Gordon Walker About His Diary on Belsen
The submission of Patrick Gordon Walker’s diary on Belsen.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/holocaust/5135.shtml
Minutes from a BBC Polish Service Meeting
Polish authorities thank the BBC for its support. 1945
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/holocaust/5132.shtml
Liberators and witnesses gather for a memorial – News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4448733.stm
Liberation of the Camps – History section of BBC website by Dr Stephen A Hart
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/liberation_camps_01.shtml
From History of the World in 100 objects series:
Nurses’ World War II battledress jacket
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/43HmRH5HRSWeDI2oA_TX_A
Local story: ‘They were dying every day’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk/content/articles/2005/04/21/belsen_interview_feature.shtml
Thought for the Day: Rabbi Sacks 15 April 2005
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/thought/documents/t20050415.shtml
A Time to Forgive? A personal story from a survivor, Dora Love
http://www.bbc.co.uk/essex/content/articles/2009/02/25/holocaust_dora_four_feature.shtml
West Yorkshire commemoration of the anniversary of Belsen’s liberation
“I couldn’t believe anything like this had happened in the world.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/peoples_war/belsen_liberation_commemoration_dewsbury.shtml
On This Day: 15 April 1945
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/witness/april/15/newsid_4417000/4417045.stm
Bergen Belsen Anniversay in Pictures
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4449619.stm
Liberation of Belsen Audio Slide Show
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/4445811.stm
Rabbi Leslie Hardman Obituary
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/lastword_10oct2008.shtml
Dachau Survicors Mark Liberation May 1 3005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4503607.stm
MArtin Gilbert on Dachau
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4516211.stm
Teddy Dixon Liberator of Dachau
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4361448.stm
Remembering Liberators 