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776. Evacuation of Prisoners from Sachsenhausen
SS camp guards begin the forced evacuation on foot of 33,000 prisoners from the ... route, SS escort guards shot prisoners who were unable to keep up. The various groups that were ... structure of the groups disintegrated: guards fled and prisoners had more opportunities to separate from the
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777. Buchenwald
It also eventually had a railway station, brothel, and crematorium. SS guard barracks and the camp ... late summer 1941 until 1943, a special guard unit named "SS Kommando 99" shot 8,000 Soviet prisoners-of ... exposure, exhaustion, or murder by guards. The underground resistance organization in Buchenwald
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778. Ravensbrück
1945. Aside from the male SS administrators, the camp staff included only female guards assigned ... to oversee the prisoners. These female guards were not members of the SS, but were members of the so ... Ravensbrück also served as one of the main training camps for female SS guards. Conditions in the Camp
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779. Dachau
for all later concentration camps. It also became a training center for SS guards who were deployed ... . The Dachau camp was a training center for SS concentration camp guards. The camp's organization and ... guard towers surrounded the camp. In 1942, the crematorium area was constructed next to the main
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780. Sobibor: Key Dates
Trawniki-trained guards. March 5, 1943 ... July 1943, SS authorities in Westerbork deport over 34,000 Jews to Sobibor. Camp staff and guards kill ... revolt in Sobibor. They kill nearly a dozen German staff and Trawniki-trained guards. Of 600 prisoners
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781. SS: Decline, Disintegration, and Trials
starvation, exposure, and disease. Moreover, the SS camp staff and guards shot, hanged, or otherwise killed ... concentration camp prisoners to fall alive into enemy hands, the SS guards forced tens of thousands of prisoners ... “death marches” because of the high mortality rates and the brutality of the SS guards in shooting
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782. The Harrison Report
criticism of the DPs' treatment. Many were living under armed guard behind barbed wire, sometimes in the ... that barbed wire, American military guards, and passes to travel outside of DP centers were necessary ... guards with unarmed DP police forces. The
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783. Is It Ever Too Late to Seek Justice?
Ryan, housewife in Queens, New York, former concentration camp guard ... Times revealed that a New York City housewife was in fact a former SS guard at the
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784. Auschwitz
guards executed thousands of prisoners. Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau ... Auschwitz I, it was patrolled by SS guards, including—after 1942—SS dog handlers ... guards and blew up the crematorium and adjacent gas chamber. The prisoners used explosives smuggled into ... Golleschau. SS guards shot anyone who fell behind or could not
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785. Freiberg
concrete barracks, the brutality of the SS female guards, the physically draining work, and malnourishment ... (later 28) female SS guards, some of whom were recruited from the Freiberg area and some of whom came ... with the prisoners from Auschwitz, guarded the women. SS Unterscharführer Richard Beck was in command ... at the camp and over 27 SS- Unterführer and SS men from the camp guard.16 After
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786. Irving Horn
away from my work detail to a farm owned by a woman who cooked for the camp’s German guards. About to ... where his guards deserted his column. Liberated by the U.S. Army, he emigrated to the United States in
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787. Mühldorf
SS guards carried out “selections” at the Mühldorf complex in the fall of 1944, deporting hundreds of ... the US Army approached the camps, the SS guards forcibly evacuated some 3,600 prisoners from the camp
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788. Meir Porges
guarding him had been mellowed by age and the general morale of the pro-German Slovakian army was falling ... rapidly. In 1944, as anger with the government mounted, the guards deserted the camp and Meir was left to
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789. Irene Safran
relocation. We waited at the brick factory for five days while German and Hungarian soldiers stood guard. We ... a guard to give him his SS uniform and let him escape. But the guard never showed up to the ... barracks of the condemned. People were screaming and crying, and the guards were busy trying to maintain ... order. Luckily, there were no guards outside. We crawled back to C Lager. Not surprisingly, food was
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790. Accidental Witness
standing guard. Chest puffed out, and hands tucked behind his back. Ross gets out his film camera, and ... frames a shot of the Nazi guard. Helen steps in front of the camera with her long thick coat, and her ... proceeds to march right past the Nazi guard to enter the shop. The guard holds his arm out, and stops her ... [In some cases] it was sufficient to [tell the guard] that we were foreigners, but this man was
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791. Haim Solomon: Hiding during the Pogrom in Iasi
Romanian guards he found himself next to the back wall and as night started, they jumped over the wall and ... the ceiling. They removed the top layer and crawled into it and replaced the layers so that guards ... so people by themselves, no they brought in more from back, guards to again fill up the train with
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792. Flossenbürg
authorities conducted numerous individual and mass shootings characterized as “executions.” SS guards had shot ... or starvation, or because SS guards shot them when they could no longer keep up the pace ... guards deserted during the night. Fewer than 3,000 of those who left Flossenbürg main camp arrived in
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793. Oranienburg
the guards were paid from tax money. In total, the German tax payer paid 280,000 Reichsmark (RM ... in Oranienburg. The guards at Oranienburg were recruited from the ranks of “proven” SA men ... authorities. Complaints against guards never resulted in an indictment. Also, after 1945, none of the
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794. Melk
The remaining guards consisted of around 500 Luftwaffe soldiers who had been put under the command of ... workers and individual members of the guards. At the beginning of 1945, Hungarian Jewish prisoners, with ... . Members of the Melk guards were convicted after the war in the Dachau military trials. Camp leader Julius
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795. Berta Rivkina
mother hid in a warehouse. When they were discovered by a German guard, Berta was so scared that she ... began talking gibberish and started to run--the guard followed her. As she fled she slammed into another ... woman who appeared out of nowhere. Just then the guard fired his gun. They both fell and Berta was sure
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796. Chelmno
including rooms for undressing and for relinquishing valuables. The SS and police staff and guards were ... . Guarded by members of the Special Detachment, the victims disembarked one truck at a time in the courtyard ... open air ovens. SS and police officials guarded the Jewish victims as they undressed and gave up
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797. München-Schwabing
The detachment had to work hard, and often on Sundays. Security was provided by SS guards from Dachau ... It is said that Schwester Pia was sometimes difficult even with these guards, her Buam (boys ... ), and bossed both the prisoners and the guards around. There are no known cases of mistreatment
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798. 1941: Key Dates
and encouraged clandestinely by German SD intelligence agents, Iron Guard leaders rise up against ... and the Romanian army crush the rebellion, but not before elements of the Iron Guard instigate a ... engineers, construction workers, and guards to Belzec
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799. Helen (Lebowitz) Goldkind
desecrate his Torah scroll. Her mother was holding her younger brother when a guard tried to pull him from ... her, taking him to the left and sending her to the right. The guards beat her as she ran after her son
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800. Grosse Hamburgerstrasse
on the floor. The building was guarded by regular uniformed Berlin policemen under the command ... observe the proceedings. Right away, Brunner tried to catch me off guard. “Your mother is Jewish