Reporting the Holocaust
"33,000 Dachau Captives Freed by 7th Army"
Newspaper article
By: Marguerite Higgins
Date: May 1, 1945
Source: Higgins, Marguerite. "33,000 Dachau Captives Freed by 7th Army." New York Herald Tribune, May 1, 1945. Reprinted in Hynes, Samuel et al., eds. Reporting World War II: Part Two, American Journalism, 1944–1945. New York: Library of America, 1995.
About the Author: Marguerite Higgins (1921–1966) joined the staff of the New York Herald Tribune at the age of 21 and became one of the first female war reporters. She wrote the following piece on the Dachau concentration camp at 24. Higgins devoted her life to covering world conflict, travelling throughout the world to provide readers with dramatic reporting from the battlefronts of Europe, Korea, and Vietnam. She became the first woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize for foreign reporting for her...
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