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12026. Flossenbürg: Key Dates
concentration camp in the mountains of upper Bavaria near the prewar border with Czechoslovakia. Initially, the ... prisoners. The SS deploys the prisoners as forced laborers in construction of the camp and in the nearby ... Waffen-SS), SS leaders temporarily close down the Dachau concentration camp to make space for a ... military training facility, transferring the prisoners temporarily to other concentration camps
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12027. Pages from a Work in Progress: The Primo Levi Collection
the Concentration Camps On January 27, 1945, Primo Levi was among the prisoners who were liberated ... Holocaust Encyclopedia—Auschwitz Online Exhibition—The Liberation of Auschwitz Bibliography—Daily Life in ... On January 27, 1945, Primo Levi was among the prisoners who were liberated from Auschwitz by the ... Soviets. Levi had spent nearly a year at the camp. After returning to his native Turin, Italy, Levi began
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12028. Leon Merrick
Buchenwald, a concentration camp near the city of Weimar, Germany. Three months after entering Buchenwald ... Czestochowa, Poland. At the end of December 1944, the Germans evacuated the camp and took its prisoners to ... Leon was taken to Flossenbürg, another concentration camp. He was there for three weeks until, as the ... Leon was the oldest of two boys born to a Jewish family in Zgierz, Poland, a city well known for
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12029. The 104th Infantry Division during World War II
104th Infantry Division and the Liberation of Dora-Mittelbau As the 104th advanced into ... had the prisoners transported out of the camp so that they could be treated by physicians. US ... The 104th Infantry Division was recognized as a liberating unit by the US Army's Center of Military ... Allied invasion of western Europe on D-Day (June 6, 1944). The "Timberwolf
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12030. The 69th Infantry Division during World War II
Leipzig-Thekla, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp, on April 19 ... : a guard of honor composed of survivors of the camp 100 displaced persons bearing flags of ... Infantry Division was recognized as a liberating unit by the US Army's Center of Military History and the ... at the French port of Le Havre and quickly advanced into Belgium. In February, it pushed into Germany
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12031. ID tag stamped with prisoner number 119503 issued to a Polish Jewish inmate in Mauthausen
Mauthausen (Concentration Camp) ... Ebensee (Concentration camp) ... Mauthausen, and Ebensee concentration camps, and after the war in Italy and the United States. ... Mauthausen concentration camp and also worn in Ebensee concentration camp until April 1945. It would have
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12032. "We will show you their own films": Film at the Nuremberg Trial
including the liberation of the concentration camps. On November 29 ... Concentration Camps." When the lights came up in the Palace of Justice all assembled sat in silence. The human ... . Film Presented as Evidence: "Nazi Concentration Camps" ... ’s dedicated filming of itself was turned into film evidence of its crimes. From
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12033. Conversation with Herbert Mandel, Stuart Lesorgen, and Noel March
Discussion of the liberation of Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp with Herbert Mandel, a ... veteran of WWII who was present at the liberation; Stuart Lesorgen, the son of Wolf Lesorgen who was a ... survivor of the camp; and Noel March, the son of Leonard March (né Marchlewski), a medic who provided care ... Frances Metcalf donated the video recording of a discussion of the liberation of Langenstein
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12034. Oskar Schindler
. "Emalia": A Subcamp of the Plaszow Concentration Camp ... After the SS officially changed the designation of Plaszow from a forced-labor camp to a concentration ... Gross-Rosen concentration camp and thereby facilitated the survival of around 800 Jewish men whom ... liquidation in March 1943 to the forced labor camp and later concentration camp Krakau
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12035. Anne Frank Biography: Who was Anne Frank?
. Anne and her sister, Margot were transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern ... ? Anne Frank was a German girl and Jewish victim of the Holocaust who is famous for keeping a diary of ... documentation of this time is now published in The Diary of a Young Girl ... Otto and Edith Frank. For the first 5 years of her life
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12036. Life After the Holocaust: Thomas Buergenthal
Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin. After the liberation of Sachsenhausen in April 1945, a Polish ... anniversary of the day when, as a 10 year-old, he left the camp on a forced march. It was one of the infamous ... "death marches" that the retreating Nazis forced on most concentration camp prisoners, rather than ... of war.] Narrator: Those prisoners from the Auschwitz men's camp who survived the death march
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12037. The 82nd Airborne Division during World War II
of the Neuengamme concentration camp. At its height, Wöbbelin held some ... . 82nd Airborne Division The 82nd Airborne Division and the Liberation of Wöbbelin ... North Africa to prepare for the invasion of Italy. In July, the 82nd was dropped into Sicily and fought ... (June 6, 1944), the date when the Allies launched their massive invasion of western Europe, the "All
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12038. Ghettos
ghettos to forced-labor camps and concentration camps. In August 1944, German SS and police ... part of Budapest in which the two ghettos were located and liberated the nearly 90,000 Jewish residents. ... Origin of the Term "Ghetto" The term "ghetto" originated from the name of the Jewish ... emperor ordered the creation of ghettos for Jews in Frankfurt, Rome, Prague, and other cities
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12039. Martin "Marty" Weiss
Moshe had survived the camps, but died shortly after liberation under unclear circumstances. Of the ... Mauthausen concentration camp, where they were forced to work in the stone quarries, and then to Melk, a ... family were proud citizens of the newly-formed nation. In 1938-1939, Nazi Germany and other countries ... dismantled Czechoslovakia and annexed and occupied much of its territory. Hungary took control of the
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12040. Bergen-Belsen
prisoners of war, key dates in its existence as a concentration camp in the Nazi camp system, the liberation ... Browse a series of articles about the establishment of the Bergen-Belsen camp as a camp for ... of the camp, and the establishment of a displaced persons camp near the site of the former ... concentration camp.
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12041. Robert E. Cone collection
liberation of the Ohrdruf and Mauthausen concentration camps, ... Antitank Division, who participated in the liberation of Ohrdruf and Mauthausen concentration camps, to his ... Ohrdruf (Concentration camp) ... Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
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12042. Harry Weiss Collection
photographers from April 1945-May 1945. The photographs relate to the liberation of various concentration camps ... victims at the Hergenhein concentration camp; the liberation of and arrival of American troops at the ... concentration camp; victims and survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp; various buildings including ... Dachau concentration camp; the buildings and victims of Landsberg a sub-camp of Dachau concentration camp
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12043. Introduction to the Holocaust
series of offensives, they overran concentration camps. There they ... These forced marches consisted of groups of Jewish and non-Jewish concentration camp inmates who had ... ghettos, concentration camps, and forced-labor camps, where many died from ... Nazi concentration camps. Jehovah
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12044. Neuengamme
Sachsenhausen concentration camp. It was located on the grounds of an abandoned brickworks on the banks of the ... held until the liberation of the camp in 1945. Conditions in the Camp ... 1943, the camp authorities issued prisoners the typical striped uniforms of the concentration camps ... Steinwerke), SS leaders intended to reactivate and renovate the brick works, using concentration camp
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12045. Children at an OSE home enjoy a meal outside.
were shot in front of him, and he was imprisoned in various concentration camps. After the war ... DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- Orphans/Children's Homes/Summer Camps -- France -- Draveil ... Hermine Markovitz (born Hemine Zali Katz) is the daughter of Samuel Katz and Regina Kahan Katz ... She Hermine Markovitz (born Hemine Zali Katz) is the daughter of Samuel Katz and Regina Kahan Katz
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12046. Jewish children at the OSE home in Draveil.
were shot in front of him, and he was imprisoned in various concentration camps. After the war ... DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- Orphans/Children's Homes/Summer Camps -- France -- Draveil ... Hermine Markovitz (born Hemine Zali Katz) is the daughter of Samuel Katz and Regina Kahan Katz ... She Hermine Markovitz (born Hemine Zali Katz) is the daughter of Samuel Katz and Regina Kahan Katz
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12047. Oral history interview with Joseph Gatenio
Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief ... journey to Birkenau; selections at Birkenau; the deaths of family members; his participation in the camp ... staying in Ludwigslust until May 1 when they were transported to another camp; his liberation by American ... Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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12048. Allen A. Cramer collection
the 11th Armored Division and a liberator of the Gusen concentration camp. In the memoir, he ... describes his memories of the liberation and of his experiences guarding the camp. Also includes ... photographs taken by PFC Cramer of the Gusen concentration camp, including an episode of "Camp Justice ... Gusen (Concentration camp)
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12049. Estelle Wakszlak Laughlin
and transported them to the Lublin-Majdanek concentration camp. Upon arrival at Majdanek, the SS ... Michla, Estelle, and Freda were, instead, sent to the Skarżysko concentration camp to work in a munitions ... factory, and were later transferred to another weapons factory at the Czestochowa concentration camp ... . Soviet forces liberated Czestochowa in January of 1945. To escape pogroms in Poland the three women moved
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12050. Agi Laszlo Geva
. Several weeks after arriving at Auschwitz, they were transferred to the Plaszow concentration camp, where ... her sister survived together through several camps and a death march. Biographical Information Agi ... time later, the camp authorities selected them, along with 180 Hungarian and 20 Polish women, for ... transport to a small labor camp in Rochlitz, Germany, near Leipzig. There, they were trained to work at a