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11851. Two Jewish youth pose outside while on an outing organized by the Ihud Zionist youth movement.
the Trawniki concentration camp. During the first few weeks of the uprising Gina was concealed in a ... repairing train tracks until the camp was liberated by the Soviets in February 1945. At the end of the war ... DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Poland ... Eugenia Shrut (born Gina Tabaczynska) is the daughter of Naftali and Rozalia (Szczecinska
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11852. Gina Tabaczynska poses with two friends and the Pole who protected her while she was living in hiding in Warsaw.
the Trawniki concentration camp. During the first few weeks of the uprising Gina was concealed in a ... repairing train tracks until the camp was liberated by the Soviets in February 1945. At the end of the war ... DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Poland ... Eugenia Shrut (born Gina Tabaczynska) is the daughter of Naftali and Rozalia (Szczecinska
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11853. Two girls help a friend climb up the roadside along a dirt road while a few other girls are watching.
she worked was arrested and deported to concentration camp. He later was recognized by Yad Vashem as ... ECLAIREURS UNIONISTES DE FRANCE; EXTERIORS; JEWS (FRENCH); SCOUTS; SUMMER CAMPS; WOMEN; YOUTH (13 ... watching. They attended the Eclaireurs Unionistes summer camp. ... Denise Siekierski (born Denise Caraco) is the only child of Jacques and Andree Caraco. She was
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11854. 1944: Key Dates
Soviet troops liberate Lublin/Majdanek concentration camp. Although they had evacuated most of the ... concentration camp, the SS Inspectorate of Concentration Camps redesignates Mittelbau ... . November 23US troops liberate Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp ... of Concentration Camps officially designates the Bergen-Belsen “residence camp” a concentration camp
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11855. Dr. Gilbert R. DiLoreto collection
probably in April-May 1945 on site of the liberated Dachau concentration camp. Mr. Zamecnik described the ... 116th Evacuation Hospital. He was part of the first medical team to enter the Dachau concentration camp ... Dachau (Concentration camp) ... practices of the infirmary in the camp which included "medical" experiments and other tortures. Signal Corps
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11856. Two Jewish Macedonian partisans immediately after the war.
130 members strong, they liberated a group of Serbs and Slovenes from a prisoner camp in Greece, who ... little of what had happened to their family members, and nothing of the death camps. They returned to ... additional Jews gathered from Skopje and Shtip, they had been sent to the Treblinka concentration camp in ... DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Yugoslavia
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11857. American Witnesses Audio Testimony Transcripts
American men and women of the US military who encountered the Nazi concentration camps at the end of World ... liberated by the US Army in April 1945, after spending two years in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in ... the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany as part of an intelligence reconnaissance unit. This is ... Nazis. In the area outside the Flossenbürg concentration camp, he followed a trail of mass graves. This
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11858. Teenagers from the Zeilsheim children's center pose together with a Zionist flag.
construct a new concentration camp in Belzec. During the construction phase, the camp was still a labor ... Gestapo. Lajziu and Asher were sent to a concentration camp in Budzyn. The brothers felt doubly isolated ... DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany: Major Centers ... Larry Rosenbach (born Eliezer Lajziu Rosenbach) is the son of Aaron and Ewa Rosenbach. He was born
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11859. Oral history interview with John Meyerstein
Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief ... Central Promenade Camp (Concentration camp) ... Isle of Man. ... The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on
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11860. Death Marches
Buchenwald concentration campAs American forces approach, the Nazis begin a mass evacuation of ... campJust three days before the liberation of the Dachau camp, the SS forces about 7,000 prisoners ... liberate the Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945. In early May 1945, American troops liberate the ... closed in on the Nazi concentration camps. The Soviets approached from the east, and the British, French
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11861. Oral history interview with Richard Horowitz
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation. ... the liberation of Auschwitz, Poland by the Soviet Army in January 1945; his mother finding him in a ... attitude towards being saved by Schindler; and the liberation of Auschwitz. ... Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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11862. White cloth badge with 2 stencilled prisoner numbers retrieved by a US soldier
concentration camp after its liberation in April 1945. Kaluski was a soldier in the United States Army who ... Dachau (Concentration camp) ... service as a soldier in the United States 3rd Army in Germany, including the liberation of Dachau ... concentration camp in spring 1945.
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11863. White cloth badge with a stencilled prisoner number retrieved by a US soldier
at Dachau concentration camp after its liberation in April 1945. Kaluski was a soldier in the United ... Dachau (Concentration camp) ... service as a soldier in the United States 3rd Army in Germany, including the liberation of Dachau ... concentration camp in spring 1945.
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11864. Dachau
Establishment of the Dachau Camp The Dachau concentration camp was established in March ... prisoners from concentration camps near the front to prevent the capture of ... 1933. It was the first regular concentration camp established by the National Socialist (Nazi ... described the camp as "the first concentration camp for political prisoners." It was located on the
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11865. Buchenwald
concentration camps established within the German borders of 1937. Location of the Camp The ... Buchenwald concentration camp was constructed in 1937 about five miles northwest of the city of Weimar in ... was one of the only concentration camps that held so-called “work-shy” individuals. These were people ... and were sent to a concentration camp instead of being released. These experiments involved
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11866. The 45th Infantry Division during World War II
Munich. The 45th Infantry Division and the Liberation of Dachau As the 45th Infantry ... Dachau concentration camp. On April 29, 1945, three US Army divisions converged on the camp: the ... Flossenbürg concentration camp had arrived at Dachau and the SS guards had forced almost 7,000 Dachau inmates ... barracks within the camp. The proximity of the US Army gave hope to the prisoners in the camp and to
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11867. The 42nd Infantry Division during World War II
. Liberation of Dachau The proximity of the US Army gave hope to the prisoners in the camp and to ... . The 42nd Infantry Division and the Liberation of Dachau On April 29, 1945, the 42nd Infantry ... Division entered the Dachau concentration camp, the earliest and longest ... Flossenbürg concentration camp had arrived at Dachau and the SS guards had forced almost 7,000 Dachau inmates
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11868. Oral history interview with James Dorris
participating in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp; how this experience affected his subsequent ... views on life; being unprepared for this mission; his memories of the approach to the camp and the smell ... camp and his interaction with one of them, which filled him with awe about the goodness in midst of all ... participated in the liberation of Dachau. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received a copy of the
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11869. Bergen-Belsen
concentration camps, as well as various subcamps and labor camps. At the end of July 1944 there were ... German military authorities established the Bergen-Belsen camp in 1940. It was in a location south of the ... -Belsen was exclusively a prisoner-of-war (POW) camp. In April 1943 the SS Economic-Administration Main ... Office (SS Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt; WVHA) which administered the concentration camp
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11870. US Army duffel bag used by a soldier
Europe where his unit liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany and assisted in the liberation of ... with the liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp. Captain Mitnick was awarded two Bronze Stars for ... unit took control of Ohrdruf concentration camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald, shortly after its liberation ... took control of the Ohrdruf concentration camp in April 1945; nearly all the inhabitants were dead
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11871. Steve Bennett collection
concentration camp shortly after liberation, and discusses finding the "Koks Raum 2" key. ... Dachau (concentration camp) ... The collection consists of a letter and key. ... United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Steve Bennett
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11872. Death Marches
they liberated hundreds of thousands of concentration camp prisoners ... Group Center. Soviet forces then overran the first of the major Nazi concentration camps ... camp, using both footage of the camp at liberation and interviews with some of the surviving prisoners ... . The evacuations of the concentration camps had three purposes: SS authorities did not
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11873. Eva Ebin collection
-camp of Mauthausen. The camp was liberated in May 1945. Eva was taken to Lake Attersee by the ... from 24 May 1944 until 4 May 1945, and was liberated from Mauthausen concentration camp; and a ... Mauthausen (Concentration camp) ... Czechoslovakia which became part of Hungary in 1938. In May 1944, Eva was deported to Auschwitz death camp with
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11874. The United States and the Holocaust, 1942–45
about the operations of the Auschwitz concentration camp to the American public and supported secret ... disguised in Red Cross boxes, into concentration camps in the final weeks of the war ... of Nazi crimes. In July 1944, Soviet forces were the first to overrun a major Nazi concentration camp ... Auschwitz. The US military did not participate in the liberation of any extermination camps in Nazi-occupied
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11875. White buckled armband with a red cross retrieved by a US soldier
Dachau (Concentration camp) ... service as a soldier in the United States 3rd Army in Germany, including the liberation of Dachau ... concentration camp in spring 1945. ... White armband with a red cross and a buckle used by the Red Cross at Dachau concentration camp