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11951. Elie Wiesel Timeline and World Events: 1928–1951
The first permanent concentration camp, Dachau, is established ... renames its units deployed at concentration camps the "Death's Head Units," later known as "Death's Head ... concentration camp is established near the Polish city Oswiecim. Italy declares ... a "total" and "final" solution of the "Jewish Question." Construction of Auschwitz-Birkenau camp
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11952. The 3rd Armored Division during World War II
uncovered a large concentration camp near the town of Nordhausen. Requesting help from the ... continued the push east until war's end. The 3rd Armored Division and the Liberation of Dora ... concentration camp. The division first arrived on the scene, reporting back to headquarters that it had ... Division in recognition of the division's role as the spearhead of many attacks during the liberation of
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11953. Displaced Persons
often bleak conditions—many of the camps were former concentration camps and German army camps—social ... Bureau to help survivors locate relatives who had survived the concentration camps. Public radio ... of the Jewish community in Palestine, visited DP camps several times in 1945 and 1946. His visits ... passengers in camps on the island of Cyprus. The British attack on one such
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11954. Ohrdruf
labor in the form of concentration camp prisoners for railway construction leading to a proposed ... request to bring members of Congress and journalists to the newly liberated camps so that they could bring ... continue to uncover German concentration camps for political prisoners in which conditions of indescribable ... The Ohrdruf camp was created in November 1944 near the town of Gotha, Germany
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11955. The Holocaust and World War II: Key Dates
SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich ... American forces liberate the Dachau concentration camp. April 30, 1945Adolf ... France. August 25, 1944Liberation of Paris. December 16 ... Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners begins from the Auschwitz camp
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11956. Auschwitz
prisoners from Gross-Rosen to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. The Liberation of ... . The Auschwitz concentration camp was located on the outskirts of Oświęcim in German-occupied Poland ... Sachsenhausen concentration camp outside of Berlin. Less than a month later, on June 14, German authorities in ... forced laborers within weeks of their arrival in Auschwitz to other concentration camps in Germany and
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11957. Japanese American Relocation
sometimes called “concentration camps” during the war, though after the liberation ... of the Nazi concentration camps, the phrase tended to be associated with Nazism rather than with ... Kaufering IV Hurlach, a subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp. Opposition to Relocation ... .S. citizens to concentration camps, solely and explicitly on the basis of race is objectively unlawful
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11958. The 6th Armored Division during World War II
camp's liberation, the SS had evacuated thousands of inmates on death ... River and moved quickly into central Germany. The 6th Armored Division and the Liberation of ... 6th Armored Division overran the Buchenwald concentration camp on April ... vicinity. They approached members of the 6th Armored Division with information about the camp. The first US
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11959. Interviews with Holocaust Survivors
Budapest, Hungary. She survived internment in Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Plaszow concentration camp, and then ... survived the Warsaw ghetto, as well as internment and forced labor at multiple concentration camps ... remarkable personal stories of hope, tragedy, and survival with thousands of visitors. Watch recordings of ... before American soldiers liberated him in 1945. Agi Geva Agi (Laszlo) Geva was born on June 2, 1930, in
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11960. Franz Reisz painting
drawings for them. He also drew inmates of the concentration camps. In January 1945, he was sent to the ... Mauthausen concentration camp and was eventually liberated from the Ebensee concentration camp in May 1945 ... Theresienstadt concentration camp in October 1942 and was liberated on May 9, 1945. While imprisoned, Elise met ... Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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11961. Kovno
control of the ghetto and converted it into the Kauen concentration camp. The Jewish council's role was ... 32,000. This was about one-fourth of the city's total population. Jews were concentrated in the city ... Germans evacuated the camp, deporting most of the remaining Jews to the ... Dachau concentration camp in Germany or to the Stutthof camp, near Danzig, on the Baltic coast. Three
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11962. Print
The collection consists of photographs and prints depiting the life in the concentration camps and ... concentration camps in Germany. Henri was sent to Dachau concentration camp which was liberated by US troops on ... Struthof concentration camp in France. ... prisoner in Saint-Die on June 22. He was transported to Oflag XVIIA, a prisoner of war camp for officers in
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11963. Gay Men under the Nazi Regime
Allied soldiers liberated concentration camps and freed prisoners ... were convicted. In some cases, this led to their imprisonment in concentration camps ... of whom were imprisoned in the regime’s early concentration ... sent directly to a concentration camp. Police raids were
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11964. The 36th Infantry Division during World War II
Dachau concentration camp on April 30, 1945. One of its attached battalions had been ordered to locate ... Infantry Division and the Liberation of Kaufering During the 36th's drive into Bavaria, the ... and secure all concentration camps in the area around Hurlach, near Landsberg. Recognition as ... and landed in North Africa in April 1943 as part of the Allied campaign
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11965. Killing Centers: In Depth
subordinated to the regional SS and police leader, but was part of the concentration camp system under the SS ... concentration camp for forced laborers after the destruction of the gas chambers in November 1944. Most of the ... prisoners, however, had been evacuated by foot or on trains prior to the liberation of the camp by units of ... Lublin District. Later it became a part of the concentration camp system. Unlike Auschwitz, Lublin
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11966. Print
The collection consists of photographs and prints depiting the life in the concentration camps and ... concentration camps in Germany. Henri was sent to Dachau concentration camp which was liberated by US troops on ... Struthof (Concentration camp) ... Struthof concentration camp in France.
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11967. Nazi flag from taken from Dachau and signed by over 50 US soldiers
Fox participated in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany on April 29, 1945. ... Dachau (Concentration camp) ... concentration camp in 1945 by Everett A. Fox, a soldier in the United States Army, 45th Infantry Division. Fox ... participated in the liberation of Dachau by the United States Army on April 29, 1945. The flag was signed by
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11968. Woman's engraved gold wrist watch given to one inmate by another in Auschwitz
Auschwitz until January 1945, immediately prior to the liberation of the camp by the Russian Army. The camp ... Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ... imprisonment in several concentration camps for her resistance activities during the Holocaust. ... concentration camp around January 1945. The person who gave Esther the watch told her that she knew that Esther
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11969. Ravensbrück: Key Dates
liberate the Ravensbrück concentration camp ... . 1946-1948British military courts try members of the Ravensbrück concentration camp staff ... Ravensbrück concentration camp. December 1938SS Colonel Günther Tamaschke ... women's concentration camp to Ravensbrück concentration camp. They are the first women in Ravensbrück
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11970. Anna Seelfreund Grosz
holding pen established the previous month for the purpose of concentrating the Jews of the region for ... at Praust; they were joined by hundreds of prisoners evacuated from the Organisation Todt camp in ... arbitrated a division of the province of Transylvania between Romania and Hungary. Hungary annexed northern ... Hungarian government’s antisemitic laws of 1938, 1939, and 1941, which were modeled after the Nuremberg Laws
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11971. A first grade class in Metz, France. Pictured in the back row, third child from the left is Lazare Tannenbaum.
fall of 1941, the round up of Jews for transport to concentration camps had begun. To obtain false ... DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- France ... Dunkirk, where he worked in a telecommunications unit that would coordinate the movement of Allied troops ... Anticipating the start of war, the Tannenbaum and Lejzerowicz families began looking for safer locations to
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11972. 2nd Canadian Division
pursuit of the defeated enemy toward the Reich, the Canadians liberated Dieppe, then helped clear the ... the North Sea. While clearing the eastern Netherlands of German forces, they liberated the ... Westerbork transit camp, which was situated in the northeastern Dutch province of Drenthe, near the towns ... government had established a camp at Westerbork in October 1939 to house refugees, most of whom were Jewish
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11973. Sachsenhausen: Key Dates
Sachsenhausen concentration camp site to begin construction of the camp. By the end of 1936, Sachsenhausen will ... authorities deport 60,000-80,000 Polish civilians to concentration camps, 6,000 of them to Sachsenhausen ... Sachsenhausen. The camp SS shoots most of them shortly after arrival. 1942SS ... Dachau concentration camp. 1944 Camp authorities select prisoners they deem
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11974. The 71st Infantry Division during World War II
Gunskirchen, one of the many subcamps of the Mauthausen concentration camp in ... Liberation of Gunskirchen On May 4, 1945, the 71st Infantry Division liberated ... starving and weakened camp population. The prisoners were—with the exception of 400 political prisoners ... Gunskirchen camp. When troops of the 71st entered the camp, they learned that the SS guards had fled
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11975. Warsaw Uprising
August 5, 1944, one of the AK battalions liberated 348 Jews from Gęsiówka, a concentration camp located ... liberation of Poland by the Red Army as it advanced west. The idea of an armed action came originally from ... Soviet forces, the Polish communists proclaimed the Polish Committee of National Liberation ... the transit camp, Dulag 121, outside of Warsaw. They later relocated them for