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12051. The 20th Armored Division during World War II
Dachau concentration camp. Recognition as a Liberating Unit The 20th Armored Division was ... . The 20th Armored Division and the Liberation of Dachau On April 29, 1945, the 20th Armored ... Division was one of three US Army divisions to take part in the liberation of the ... recognized as a liberating unit by the US Army's Center of Military History and the United States Holocaust
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12052. James H. Mahoney photograph collection
and provided medical treatment to liberated prisioners of Buchenwald concentration camp ... Consists of a collection of photographs taken at the Buchenwald concentration camp immediately ... after the liberation of the camp, as well as a Rolleiflex camera discovered at the camp. Dr. James ... Collection of 27 photographs of images of Buchenwald concentration camp immediately after its
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12053. Manya Friedman: Death March to Ravensbrück
discusses her evacuation from Gleiwitz, a subcamp of Auschwitz, to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in ... the Ravensbrück concentration camp in January 1945. In an effort to cover up their crimes and prevent ... Ravensbrück concentration camp. These evacuations later became known as “death marches.” MANYA FRIEDMAN ... leave her, and she would be liberated by the Russians. But there was also a rumor around camp that they
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12054. Records relating to the Jacob Hennenberg family
Waldenburg where he became inmate number 64242. He was also interned in Stuthoff concentration camp. He was ... liberated from the camp on May 9, 1945. ... shortly after his liberation from Waldenburg (a subcamp of Gross-Rosen); and Hennenberg in a forced labor ... Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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12055. Henry Greenbaum
army approached, Henry was evacuated to Flossenbürg, a concentration camp near the Czechoslovakian ... persons camp near Frankfurt until she was able to arrange for their immigration. In the summer of 1946 ... Nuchem, ran a tailor shop out of their home while his mother, Gittel, raised the family’s nine children ... with other children. However, in the summer of 1939, rumors of an impending German invasion became rife
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12056. Naki Touron-Fais
another 1,500 people arrived from Ionnina. The camp was an old warehouse in the outskirts of Larissa. The ... conditions were bad, but nothing compared to the concentration camps. The food was okay. We were sleeping on ... saw Nitsa. She thought I was in a concentration camp and possibly had perished. She offered her deep ... back home after liberation. Many other Jews died from a variety of ailments after liberation. They were
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12057. Nesse Galperin Godin
prisoner from the age of 13 to 17. I lived through a ghetto, concentration camp, four labor camps, and a ... the Kauen concentration camp called Schaulen (the German name for Šiauliai) and Nesse was assigned to ... remaining in the Schaulen camp were deported to the Stutthof concentration camp, as the Red Army approached ... brother, Menashe, evaded deportation with the help of a gentile friend. In the camp, Jewish women looked
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12058. White striped blue shirt worn by Polish Jewish slave laborer
Eintrachthutte (Concentration camp) ... factory. In April 1944, they were sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp. David was transferred ... liberated the camp. After recuperating for several months, David returned to Ostrowiec. He found one cousin ... Concentration camp uniforms
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12059. American Witnesses
Nazi Camps The unspeakable conditions the liberators confronted shed light on the full scope of Nazi ... military encountered the Nazi concentration camps. Few, even those hardened in battle, expected such a ... be printed in full color, along with a discussion guide. Holocaust Encyclopedia Liberation of ... American Witnesses highlights the experiences of American men and women who saw first-hand evidence of
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12060. The 8th Armored Division during World War II
-Zwieberge, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp, between April 12 ... Liberation of Halberstadt-Zwieberge As it moved into central Germany, the 8th liberated Halberstadt ... Unit The 8th Armored Division was recognized as a liberating unit by the US Army's Center of ... France in January 1945 and advanced rapidly to the Alsace region by the end of the month. From here, the
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12061. German civilians forced to view atrocities committed in Buchenwald
US forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in April 1945. Here, US ... liberating troops had a policy of forcing German civilians to view the atrocities committed in the camps. ... soldiers escort German civilians from the nearby town of Weimar through the Buchenwald camp. The American
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12062. Esther Lurie
Stutthof concentration camp. She endured several forced-labor camps until her liberation in January 1945 ... . After liberation, Lurie stayed briefly in Italy. She exhibited her forced-labor camp drawings there ... Esther Lurie was born in 1913 in the village of Liepaja, Latvia. As a young student in Latvia’s capital ... Arts). In 1934, Lurie joined part of her family in Tel Aviv. They had settled there a few years
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12063. Ruth Cohen
of an Auschwitz crematorium, Ruth and her sister were sent in a transport to a concentration camp in ... Holleischen, a subcamp of Flossenbürg concentration camp. They worked in a factory that manufactured airplane ... Czechoslovakia. In 1938, Mukačevo (Munkács in Hungarian) and other surrounding towns became part of ... neighboring Hungary, an ally of Germany. Hungarian anti-Jewish laws put restrictions on the country’s Jews
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12064. Red triangle badge with a letter B owned by Natan Caron
The collection consists of a beret, concentration camp uniform, patches, an armband, wallet, and ... laborer at that camp and a succession of sub-camps, until he was liberated in April 1945 and repatriated ... Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ... Ohrdruf (Concentration camp)
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12065. The Uniform and the Jacket
in three concentration camps in Nazi Germany. The striped uniform he wore and the jacket that was ... marked as prisoner clothing help tell his story of being persecuted for being Jewish. The garments also ... speak to his resilience after liberation. Just two weeks after the US Army liberated Buchenwald in ... Collection. Otto Feuer’s prisoner clothing helps tell his story of being persecuted for being Jewish. The
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12066. Selected records from the Ministère des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre
Contains records from various concentration and other camps, includes mainly various name lists ... certifications, lists of capos and gestapo agents, general camp statistics and registers, general camp ... of special commissions after liberation, excerpts of the journal of war orphans, correspondence ... Ravensbrück, Sachsenhausen, Schrimeck-Vorbrueck, and Theresienstadt, and other concentration camps.
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12067. Overcrowded conditions at Buchenwald
Liberated prisoners demonstrate the overcrowded conditions at the Buchenwald concentration camp ... Photograph taken after the liberation of the camp. Buchenwald, Germany, April 23, 1945.
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12068. Volkswagen
manufacturing, and the armaments industries. Like concentration camp inmates and Soviet prisoners of war at the ... war, concentration camp inmates ... ”]. A first concentration camp on the site, Arbeitsdorf, was ... concentration camp system
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12069. Oral history interview with Frank Davis and Chester Spencer
seeing Dachau concentration camp, including the numerous dead bodies in box cars, trenches, and the ... crematorium; their memories of the smell of the camp which could be detected two miles away; the declaration ... [The last six minutes of the video, without commentary, displays pictures of the Dachau concentration ... camp, of their reunion and provides an annotated sketched map of the route of the Rainbow Division
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12070. Hermann Ludwig Maas
liberation of France, Maas was able to flee the camp and was back home in Heidelberg when the US ... international cooperation, and world peace. Most unusual of Maas's ecumenical and liberal commitments was ... some prisoners from the Gurs concentration camp and provided them with ... in 1915 to take the pulpit of the prestigious Holy Spirit Church, where he ministered for the next 28
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12071. Susan Taube
in fall 1943 and Susan and her family were transferred to the nearby Kaiserwald concentration camp ... she was transported by boat to Stutthof concentration camp, only to be transferred to the ... subcamp of Stutthof and her sister, Brunhilde, died in Stutthof or on a death march. Susan was liberated ... time in a displaced persons camp before settling in the town of Alsfeld. In April 1947 Susan and Herman
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12072. Don and Ada Timmer testimonies
while Don Timmer participated in the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp as a member of the ... was liberated, while Don Timmer participated in the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp as a ... II. Ada Timmer was an army nurse and worked in the Ebensee concentration camp after it was liberated ... during World War II. Ada Timmer was an army nurse and worked in the Ebensee concentration camp after it
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12073. The 65th Infantry Division during World War II
concentration camp on April 20–21, 1945. Recognition as a Liberating Unit The 65th Infantry ... Soviet armed forces. The 65th Infantry Division and the Liberation of Flossenbürg While ... Division was recognized as a liberating unit by the US Army's Center of Military History and the United ... Infantry Division landed at the French port of Le Havre in late January 1945. The "Battle Axe" division was
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12074. Ona Simaite, Joop Westerweel, Irena Sendler
transferred to a concentration camp in southern France. She remained in France ... Nazis and imprisoned in the Vught concentration camp, Westerweel was ... ghetto under the pretext of recovering library books from Jewish university students, she smuggled in ... following her liberation
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12075. Film and Video Archive
camps Refugees Resistance movements Liberation of Nazi concentration camps Displaced persons camps ... Nazi racial science and propaganda Internment camps Deportations of Jews to ghettos and concentration ... film, Hitler speeches, concentration camp, Shoah outtakes, or most viewed. The US Holocaust Memorial ... The Museum’s Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive is one of the world’s most comprehensive