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11976. Elie Wiesel
Night. What were all of the concentration camps Elie ... concentration camp and a killing center. When the family arrived, Wiesel ... ; deportation by freight car to the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau ... ; the death march from Auschwitz-Birkenau to the concentration camp at
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11977. Binoculars
Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ... rebuilt binoculars. William E. Lifson entered the camp a few weeks after liberation and was instructed in ... the assembly of the binoculars by liberated prisoners. Assembled by William Lifson, May 1945 ... Buchenwald concentration camp.
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11978. Carolina Taitz papers relating to the Rīga ghetto
Torúz (Concentration camp) ... of the other Jews in the ghetto. She was liberated in 1945 when the Soviet Union seized the Baltic ... outside of Rīga on a small farm. She recalls the time up until the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1941 as ... Jew by wearing a yellow Star of David and sneaked in and out of the ghetto in Rīga, carrying letters
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11979. The 11th Armoured Division (Great Britain)
. Liberation of Bergen-Belsen Conditions within the grossly overpopulated camp in 1945 were ... Anti-Tank Regiment, recalled his impressions of the camp at liberation: A great ... camp. so I realize I am really alive and we were liberated. It was the English army ... Conditions in the Camp As Nazi Germany fell under the onslaught of the Allied and Soviet troops, the
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11980. Walking stick received as a gift by a French Jewish boy who survived in hiding
Pithiviers (Concentration camp) ... Pithiviers (Concentration camp) ... then deported and killed in Auschwitz concentration camp in German occupied Poland. ... The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish
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11981. The 84th Infantry Division during World War II
1945. The 84th Infantry Division and the Liberation of Hannover-Ahlem and Salzwedel As ... (April 10, 1945) and Salzwedel (April 14, 1945), both satellite camps of the ... Neuengamme concentration camp. The SS established the Hannover-Ahlem camp on November 30, 1944, after ... of the 84th entered the camp in Ahlem, they discovered an undetermined number of starving and ill
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11982. Oral history interview with Vern Smith
of the Bulge; going through Germany with his unit towards Munich; participating in the liberation of ... the Dachau concentration camp, which to him, was an unexpected encounter; how the camp was surrounded ... participated in the liberation of Dachau. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received a copy of the ... Dachau (Concentration camp)
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11983. Prisoner ID badge B 4647 worn by Polish Jewish slave laborer
Birkenau (Concentration camp) ... Eintrachthutte (Concentration camp) ... concentration camp and tattooed on his left forearm. It also has a yellow bar to identify him as Jewish and an ... -Birkenau concentration camp. David was transferred to Eintrachthutte. In January 1945, he was very sick and
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11984. The 63rd Infantry Division during World War II
Bavaria, and crossed the Danube River. The 63rd Infantry Division and the Liberation of Kaufering ... Landsberg region. One battalion of the division was ordered to search for and secure all the concentration ... camps in the area. Seven camps and hundreds of dead prisoners were discovered. The army reported that ... the camps were full of starving and dying political prisoners. These people, many
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11985. Raoul Wallenberg is present at the Jozsefvaros train station in Budapest where Jews who have been rounded-up for deportation, wait on the platform.
danger of deportation to death camps. The Swedes delegated this task to Wallenberg, who was appointed ... were concentrated under the protection of the neutral legations and the Red Cross. Using the money at ... their collaborators. On January 17, 1945, a few days after the liberation of Pest, Wallenberg set out ... RESCUE MISSIONS -- Hungary: Rescue of Budapest Jewry -- Rescue from Deportation
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11986. Jews await deportation at the Jozsefvaros train station in Budapest.
danger of deportation to death camps. The Swedes delegated this task to Wallenberg, who was appointed ... were concentrated under the protection of the neutral legations and the Red Cross. Using the money at ... their collaborators. On January 17, 1945, a few days after the liberation of Pest, Wallenberg set out ... RESCUE MISSIONS -- Hungary: Rescue of Budapest Jewry -- Rescue from Deportation
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11987. Raoul Wallenberg in his office at the Swedish legation.
danger of deportation to death camps. The Swedes delegated this task to Wallenberg, who was appointed ... were concentrated under the protection of the neutral legations and the Red Cross. Using the money at ... their collaborators. On January 17, 1945, a few days after the liberation of Pest, Wallenberg set out ... RESCUE MISSIONS -- Diplomatic Rescue -- Hungary: Rescue of Budapest Jewry -- Diplomats/Legations
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11988. Raoul Wallenberg in his Budapest office with his Jewish co-workers in November 1944.
danger of deportation to death camps. The Swedes delegated this task to Wallenberg, who was appointed ... were concentrated under the protection of the neutral legations and the Red Cross. Using the money at ... their collaborators. On January 17, 1945, a few days after the liberation of Pest, Wallenberg set out ... RESCUE MISSIONS -- Diplomatic Rescue -- Hungary: Rescue of Budapest Jewry -- Diplomats/Legations
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11989. The 9th Armored Division during World War II
Falkenau an der Eger, both subcamps of the Flossenbürg concentration camp ... ,200 female prisoners. Falkenau housed 60 prisoners. At the time of its liberation, the camp in Zwodau ... the Liberation of Zwodau and Falkenau an der Eger On May 8, 1945, troops of the 9th, along ... Both camps were located on the territory of what today is the Czech Republic. SS entrepreneurs had
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11990. Mannschafts-Stammlager (Stalag) IX B
was liberated by American troops on March 30, 1945. The camp was subordinated to the Commander of ... the day after the main camp of Stalag IX B was liberated, the American prisoners at Berga were marched ... im Wehrkreis IX). The camp commandant at the end of the war was Oberst Karl Sieber, and his ... prisoners to arrive at the camp were 14,000 Frenchmen. Most of them were immediately assigned to labor
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11991. The 1st Infantry Division during World War II
,200 female prisoners by March 1945. Falkenau housed 60 prisoners. At the time of its liberation, the camp in ... Rhine. 1st Infantry Division and the Liberation of Flossenbürg Subcamps On May 8, 1945 ... units of the 1st liberated Zwodau and Falkenau an der Eger, both subcamps of the ... Flossenbürg concentration camp. Both camps were located on territory that today is in the Czech Republic
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11992. President Obama's Remarks at Buchenwald
Division, the first Americans to reach a concentration camp. They liberated Ohrdruf, one of Buchenwald ... Concentration Camp June 5, 2009 Weimar, Germany CHANCELLOR MERKEL: (As translated.) Mr ... President, ladies and gentlemen. Here in this place a concentration camp was established in 1937. Not far ... terror, violence, and tyranny reigned over this camp. At the beginning of our joint visit to the
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11993. Josef Nassy
Germany. He spent the rest of the war at the Laufen internment camp and its subcamp, Tittmoning, both in ... life in the internment camps. Rules of the Geneva Conventions governed conditions in civilian ... Such rules did not apply at the nearby Dachau concentration camp and ... concentration camps, where imprisoned artists who sketched clandestinely were forced to improvise using scraps
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11994. The 2nd Infantry Division during World War II
Infantry Division and the Liberation of Leipzig-Schönefeld and Spergau/Zöschen In April 1945, the ... Buchenwald concentration camp, where the camp staff forced the prisoners to work for the Hugo Schneider AG ... 1944 to April 1945. After occupying the camp, the members of the 2nd Infantry Division arranged for ... Division was recognized as a liberating unit by the US Army's Center of Military History and the United
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11995. The 90th Infantry Division during World War II
then eastward into Czechoslovakia. The 90th Infantry Division and the Liberation of Flossenbürg ... On April 23, 1945, the 90th overran the Flossenbürg concentration camp ... that one of its motorized patrols entered the camp that day and found "a serious typhus epidemic" in ... German air force. After liberating Flossenbürg, the 90th discovered more evidence of Nazi
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11996. Llewellyn Zullinger photograph collection
Consists of three photographs of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, and eight ... photographs of the liberation of the Ohdruf concentration camp. ... Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ... Ohrdruf (Concentration camp)
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11997. Warsaw
Germans sent thousands of captured Polish civilians to concentration camps in the Reich. 166,000 people ... ,000 Jews in the ghetto to forced-labor camps for Jews in Lublin District of the Government General. This ... to the forced-labor camps at Poniatowa and Trawniki and to the Lublin/Majdanek concentration camp. At ... the ghetto. Liberation of Warsaw On August 1, 1944, the Polish Home Army (Armia
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11998. Reinhard Heydrich: In Depth
where deemed appropriate, incarcerated them in concentration camps using ... : Communist and Social Democratic activists intellectual and organizational adherents of liberal ... the “infectious residue” of “Jewish, liberal and Freemasonic spirit,” modes of thinking (democracy ... communism, Christian and liberal individualism) that were outgrowths of allegedly inherited racial
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11999. Bella (Berger) Mischkinsky
women to the Kaiserwald concentration camp near Riga, Latvia. In Kaiserwald, Bella worked in the ... architect in charge of construction work in the camp. They were married in the camp in a simple, informal ... toward Riga, the Kaiserwald concentration camp was liquidated and its surviving inmates, including Bella ... and Bubi, were shipped by boat and barges to the Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig. Shortly
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12000. Budapest
transit camp (originally established by Hungarian authorities), 15 miles northeast of Budapest ... to various concentration camps, especially Dachau in southern Germany ... Hungary's capital, Budapest, straddles the banks of the Danube River and is the country's most ... populous city. Budapest was created by the union of three cities: Buda, Obuda, and Pest