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12126. Yellow cloth strip sewn to a slave laborer's uniform to identify her as a Jew
(Zamora) as an inmate of Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may ... laborer at Maerzdorf concentration camp from October 1944 to May 1945. The strip was sewn to the back of ... Maerzdorf (Concentration camp) ... as an inmate of the Theresienstadt ghetto and Maerzdorf slave labor camp and of Joseph Zamoire
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12127. Albert Garih
intended to transport these Jews to concentration camps in Germany, but members of the Belgian resistance ... (née Alfandari) Garih. Albert’s twin died in infancy. Natives of Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey ... home taking care of Albert and his two sisters, Jacqueline, born in 1930, and Gilberte, born in 1933 ... . Germany Occupies Paris In May 1940, Germany invaded France and occupied Paris. Many of the approximately
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12128. Joël Nommick
concentration camps including Drancy, Auschwitz, Mittelbau, and Bergen-Belsen. After he was liberated from ... is that Jean never left Bergen-Belsen and died there soon after liberation. In the summer of 1955, a ... the village of Thoissey (Ain) near Mâcon. In Thoissey, the family owned and operated two successful ... administrative zones. The northern part of France, including Paris, was the German occupied zone, while the
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12129. Manya Friedman
taken to the Retzow camp, a sub-camp of Ravensbrück. She was liberated by the Swedish Red Cross in late ... of taking care of herself. So I thought maybe I should leave her, and she would be liberated by the ... our camp. At one of the stations she begged a guard for some water because one of the girls fainted ... the Ravensbrück concentration camp. The trip through the bitter cold
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12130. Dachau - Photographs
concentration camp of the Nazi regime. Prisoners were subjected to horrific conditions, forced labor, and ... medical experiments. Dachau became the model for all Nazi concentration camps. It was liberated by
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12131. Dachau - Historical Film Footage
concentration camp of the Nazi regime. Prisoners were subjected to horrific conditions, forced labor, and ... medical experiments. Dachau became the model for all Nazi concentration camps. It was liberated by
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12132. Dachau (Abridged Article) - Photograph
concentration camp of the Nazi regime. Prisoners were subjected to horrific conditions, forced labor, and ... medical experiments. Dachau became the model for all Nazi concentration camps. It was liberated by
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12133. Dachau (Abridged Article) - Historical Film Footage
Dachau opened in Germany in March 1933. It was the first regular concentration camp of the Nazi ... became the model for all Nazi concentration camps. It was liberated by American forces on April 29, 1945.
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12134. Bella and Bernard Pasternak collection
camp, Riga, Latvia, Stuttthof, and Goodhauf concentration camps, where she was liberated in January ... Persons camps in Germany and Italy [Trani] (1945-1949). Also included are records of Bella’s pre-war life ... concentration camp where he was then transported to a sub-camp and then back to Buchenwald in 1945, where he was ... liberated. Bella was deported to Auschwitz, and then subsequently transferred to Kaiserwald concentration
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12135. Irena Aronowicz
Irena was taken to a series of concentration camps including Birkenau ... the same goal, the dirtiest, ugliest quarter of the city, a place with no sewers and paved with ... Irena remained in the ghetto with just her sister. The two of them were deported to ... liberated Irena in Mauthasuen. Immediately following liberation, Irena set out to recreate her diaries from
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12136. Oral history interview with Sid Shafner
superiors and thereby initiating the storming of the Dachau concentration camp; his memories of the inmates ... over the administration of the camp as the platoon moved on; the unit adopting the two young Jewish ... participated in the liberation of Dachau. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received a copy of the ... Dachau (Concentration camp)
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12137. Jack Penrose Stockton papers
Includes photographs of corpses at liberated concentration camp (likely Ohrdruf), and photocopied ... Ohrdruf (Concentration camp) ... documents relating to military career of Jack Stockton in U.S. Army, and letter from U.S. Army in 1993 ... confirming that his unit liberated Ohrdruf.
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12138. Theresienstadt: Key Dates
May 10. Around 30,000 prisoners are in the camp at the time of liberation. ... Emigration under Hans Günther with the establishment and management of the Theresienstadt camp-ghetto ... Lieutenant Siegfried Seidl as commandant of the camp-ghetto. November 16, 1941 ... killing centers, concentration camps, and forced-labor camps in the Baltic States, Belorussia, and the
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12139. Bergen-Belsen machzor
outside the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp immediately after the camp was liberated in April 1945. The ... sent to Bergen-Belsen to deliver supplies to the British forces that liberated the camp. ... His father, Sgt. John Waholek, discovered the book outside the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in ... Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
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12140. Bremen-Farge
of war, civilian forced laborers, and also concentration camp prisoners were employed. The ... first transport of concentration camp prisoners to arrive in Farge was a small detachment required for ... concentration camp prisoners worked in Farge in two shifts, each of 12 hours. The prisoners in the day shift ... camp where they were liberated by the British Army. A transport of sick prisoners wandered for a week
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12141. The United States Army Signal Corps
newly liberated Nazi concentration camps were taken by Army photographers such as ... about the horrors of Nazism and the plight of concentration camp prisoners. The US Army and the Allied ... Beginnings of the Signal Corps The US Army Signal Corps began in 1860, with the ... appointment of Dr. Albert J. Myer, a physician, as Chief Signal Officer. Under his command, the unit
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12142. Paragraph 175 and the Nazi Campaign against Homosexuality
accused of homosexuality to concentration camps. Gestapo prisoners were held under “protective custody ... of the men that the Nazi regime sent to the concentration camps as “homosexual ... sent to concentration camps. “Transvestites ... . Paragraph 175 Prisoners in the Concentration Camps Most men
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12143. Estelle Laughlin
concentration camp. Upon arrival at Majdanek, the SS separated the women and men. Estelle, Michla, 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
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12144. Richard Sheppard collection
Collection of photographic prints documenting the Dachau concentration camp following liberation ... prior to the liberation of the camp; images were taken by US Army soldier Richard Sheppard, who sent ... them home in a letter, wrapped in a piece of paper labeled "Photos of / Dachau / concentration camp ... Dachau (Concentration camp)
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12145. Harland Schuler copyprints
Consists of two copyprints of photographs of corpses at the Buchenwald concentration camp. The ... the liberation of the camp. ... Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ... United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Harland Schuler
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12146. Louis Ranciato collection
States Army and a liberator of Dachau concentration camp in Germany during World War II. ... liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. ... Staff Sergeant Louis Ranciato’s experience in the United States Army and as a liberator of the Dachau ... concentration camp. The journal includes entries and poems recalling his experiences, starting in 1941, and
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12147. 9th Armored Division
Divisions liberated two subcamps of the Flossenbürg concentration camp. ... liberating units of the US Army during World War II. On May 8, 1945, troops of the 9th and 1st Infantry ... The 9th Armored Division is recognized as one of the 36
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12148. Corpses in Dachau
pile of corpses in the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp. Dachau, Germany, April 29 ... distributed, and often extremely graphic, images of liberation. These photographs provided powerful ... documentation of the crimes of the Nazi era.
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12149. The Harrison Report
Third Reich as forced laborers or imprisoned in concentration camps. Allied military authorities ... installations, forced-labor camps, and even concentration camps. Military authorities viewed these as temporary ... initial inspections of all centers housing large Jewish populations, Eisenhower determined the camps were ... Displaced Persons, May 1945 In May 1945, there were millions of
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12150. Oral history interview with Don Timmer
while Don Timmer participated in the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp as a member of the ... Company during the liberation of Ohrdruf Concentration Camp. ... II. Ada Timmer was an army nurse and worked in the Ebensee concentration camp after it was liberated ... Ohrdruf (Concentration camp)