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18601. Testimony
Janowska (Concentration camp) ... concentration camp; death of his parents; activities he undertook for the Polish Underground Army; internment in ... Mauthausen (Concentration camp) ... Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
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18602. The Krakow (Cracow) Ghetto during the Holocaust
Germans arrested 50 intellectuals in the ghetto and deported them to Auschwitz concentration camp, where ... the survivors to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Plaszow Concentration Camp In January 1944, the ... into a concentration camp. The SS filled the now virtually empty camp with incarcerated Jewish forced ... ,500 of them to Gross-Rosen concentration camp on October 15. As of the beginning of 1945, 636 prisoners
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18603. Budy: An Auschwitz Subcamp
Auschwitz concentration camp complex. It was an agricultural subcamp, meaning that prisoners there performed ... so-called Interest Zone of the Auschwitz concentration camp ... punishment within the concentration camp system. The ... . Like in other concentration camps, the SS used specially-selected
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18604. Heinrich Himmler
(Ordnungspolizei; Orpo) in Germany. Centralization of the Concentration Camp System ... concentration camp system. Although various civilian authorities and police agencies had established ... autonomous concentration camps during 1933 to incarcerate political enemies of the Nazi government, Hitler ... —who was impressed with the Dachau concentration camp established by the
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18605. Oral history interview with Henry Drobiarz
places; working in Krakow-Jerozolimska (Płaszów) concentration camp; being sent to Mielec concentration ... camp; his work making airplane parts in the camp; working in Sandomierz concentration camp; being taken ... to Wieliczka concentration camp in June 22, 1944; being sent to Flossenbürg concentration camp and ... mine for six weeks; being sent to Dachau concentration camp for three days then Augsburg to work in a
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18606. The 45th Infantry Division during World War II
Dachau concentration camp. On April 29, 1945, three US Army divisions converged on the camp: the ... Flossenbürg concentration camp had arrived at Dachau and the SS guards had forced almost 7,000 Dachau inmates ... concentration camp prisoners, took over the town hall, but the local SS put down the small rebellion and ... who had been viewing the Buchenwald concentration camp were quickly diverted to Dachau to see the camp
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18607. The United States and the Holocaust, 1942–45
about the operations of the Auschwitz concentration camp to the American public and supported secret ... disguised in Red Cross boxes, into concentration camps in the final weeks of the war ... offensives against Nazi Germany, they encountered concentration camps, mass graves, and numerous other sites ... of Nazi crimes. In July 1944, Soviet forces were the first to overrun a major Nazi concentration camp
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18608. Bergen-Belsen: Key Dates
other concentration camps. This section becomes known as the “recuperation camp ... WVHA officially designates the Bergen-Belsen camp complex a concentration camp. December ... Frauenlager) for female prisoners evacuated from other concentration camps. January 21 ... 1940German military authorities establish the Bergen-Belsen camp as
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18609. OSOBYI ARCHIVES MATERIALS CONCERNING SACHSENHAUSEN, GROSS ROSEN, BUCHENWALD, DACHAU, MAUTHAUSEN, AUSCHWITZ, AND OTHERS
Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) ... Gross Rosen (Concentration camp) ... Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ... Dachau (Concentration camp)
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18610. The 42nd Infantry Division during World War II
Division entered the Dachau concentration camp, the earliest and longest ... Flossenbürg concentration camp had arrived at Dachau and the SS guards had forced almost 7,000 Dachau inmates ... concentration camp prisoners, took over the town hall, but the local SS put down the small rebellion and ... who had been viewing the Buchenwald concentration camp were quickly diverted to Dachau to see the camp
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18611. Volkswagen
war, concentration camp inmates ... ”]. A first concentration camp on the site, Arbeitsdorf, was ... concentration camp system ... . The official relationship between the Nazi concentration camps and Volkswagen was cemented when the
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18612. 1940: Key Dates
Auschwitz concentration camp (Auschwitz I) outside the Polish city of Oswiecim, located in German-annexed ... Neuengamme as a subcamp of Sachsenhausen concentration camp in mid-December ... 1938, the SS Inspectorate of Concentration Camps designates the subcamp, located on the outskirts of ... the German city of Hamburg, an autonomous concentration camp. June 10
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18613. Reunion in Ebensee
information about Ebensee, I was told that there had been no concentration camp in Ebensee and that there ... was no concentration camp cemetery. For months I had nightmares that the cemetery had been bulldozed ... the next morning to go to Ebensee to visit my father’s grave at the former concentration camp ... concentration camp and where among the houses you can still see the gates to the camp—we found the cemetery
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18614. Leon Merrick: Evacuation and Arrival at Buchenwald
where Leon Merrick was imprisoned, the Germans evacuated him to the Buchenwald concentration camp in ... camp in Poland and his arrival at the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944. LEON MERRICK: So they ... —“Concentration Camp Buchenwald”—and the familiar sign, “Work Makes You Free.” Okay? So after waiting maybe five ... 'em in this concentration camp: 58,000 people. They marched us downstairs, and then they clipped us
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18615. John Demjanjuk: Prosecution of A Nazi Collaborator
Flossenbürg concentration camp until 1945. After Jewish survivors viewing a photo spread identified Demjanjuk ... -SS (Military SS) in 1942. Some members of SS Death's Head Units in the German concentration camp ... evidence only suggested, but by no means proved, that Demjanjuk might have served as a concentration camp ... concentration camp between November 1942 and early March 1943. American Citizenship Restored, Then
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18616. Stutthof
concentration camp ... by concentration camp prisoners became increasingly important in armaments production, a Focke-Wulff ... some to the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg, and some to camps ... In September 1939, the Germans established the Stutthof camp in a wooded area west of Stutthof
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18617. Collections Highlight: Auschwitz Through the Lens of the SS
the war, after Soviet troops had liberated concentration camps and labor ... assigned to the Neuengamme concentration camp and spent the entire war ... administering various concentration camps. In 1943, he became the adjutant to the commandant at ... album—there are very few wartime photographs of the Auschwitz concentration
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18618. Harry Weiss Collection
photographers from April 1945-May 1945. The photographs relate to the liberation of various concentration camps ... concentration camp; victims and survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp; various buildings including ... crematorium and barracks at Buchenwald concentration camp; German civilians digging graves for concentration ... victims at the Hergenhein concentration camp; the liberation of and arrival of American troops at the
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18619. Liberation
Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war ... Buchenwald campUS forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, in ... -Belsen campBritish forces enter the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, near Celle, Germany ... On July 23, 1944, they entered the Majdanek camp in Poland, and later overran several other killing
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18620. The Nazi Kripo (Criminal Police)
concentration camp. The ordinance applied to so-called professional criminals. Other German states followed suit ... end of 1935 there were 491 alleged professional criminals in Prussian concentration camps. However ... expanded the practice of preventive detention. The Kripo were able to detain in concentration camps ... coincided with and contributed to the expansion of the concentration camp
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18621. The 26th Infantry Division during World War II
Gusen concentration camp. SS authorities had established Gusen as a separate concentration camp in May ... using concentration camp prisoners for labor. At Gusen, the SS deployed inmates to excavate out of ... concentration camp. In May 1945, as US troops neared the camp complex, some SS and Nazi Party planned to
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18622. Theresienstadt
concentration camps, and forced-labor camps in German-occupied Poland, Belorussia, and the Baltic States ... . Theresienstadt served as a “settlement,” an assembly camp, and a concentration camp. It had recognizable features ... of both ghettos and concentration camps. In its function as a tool of deception, Theresienstadt was ... ghettos, concentration camps, and killing
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18623. Glossary of Terms and Individuals in the Nazi Judicial System
Nazi regime. Concentration camps: Places of ... of any kind. Preventive arrest usually meant indefinite internment in a concentration camp ... without regard to due process and the legal norms of arrest and detention. In addition to concentration ... camps, the Nazi regime ran several other kinds of camps under various SS, military, police, or civilian
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18624. Liste der am 23.August 1938 dem K.L. Mauthausen überstellten P.S.V. Häftlinge [ aus Dachau]
Buchenwald concentration camp, Dachau concentration camp, Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Includes name ... Mauthausen Concentration Camp Administration Lagerschreibstube, Schutzhaftlager Mauthausen ... Names of German and Austrian prisoners brought to the camp 8 August 1938 to 12 June 1939 from inter alia
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18625. Liste der Zugänge vom 14. Februar 1945
Februar 1945 überführt nach K.L. Sachsenhausen" [Transferred to Sachenhausen concentration camp on ... concentration camp." ... Concentration Camp Mauthausen, Schutzhaftlager Konzentrationslager Mauthausen, Schutzhaftlager ... Sachsenhausen [concentration camp] Germany