"It's not the territory, it's only the map..."

an exhibit of the photographs and words of Dennis E. Wile

"A picture is very descriptive, but there is a lot left out. If you don't experience it first hand, the picture can only cover so much. It can only imply. It's not the territory, it's only the map."

Dennis E. Wile, a U.S. Army photographer, visited the Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after it was liberated in 1945. This exhibit is based on the oral history interview and photographs that he donated to the Fred Roberts Crawford Witness to the Holocaust Project in 1978 and 1981. It was created as part of the Selected Archives at Georgia Tech and Emory (SAGE) digital archive project.

The complete text of the interviews and all of the photographs Wile donated and an excerpt from an interview that Wile gave as part of a television program produced by the Witness to the Holocaust program can be viewed through Emory's SAGE web site. can also be viewed A finding aid describing the Witness to the Holocaust Project files is also available at the SAGE site. Wile's transcripts, audio and video recordings of the interviews, and the photographs are available for research in the Special Collections Department, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University. Please contact Emory's reference archivist for additional information about the collection.