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1026. Berga-Elster ("Schwalbe V")
died in the camps.4 Berga survivors reported deaths from shootings, disease, starvation ... Mountains via Zwickau and Chemnitz. From this point, according to survivors, prisoners from Eastern ... As the archives and prisoner testimonies found since 1997 have not been covered in any comprehensive ... her possession numerous unpublished testimonies from surviving Berga prisoners.
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1027. Auschwitz Through the Lens of the SS: Frankfurt Trial
his testimony centered on whether or not he ever served on "the ramp"; that is whether he participated ... the regional bank in Lubbecke. Karl Höcker died in 2000 at age 88. Thousands of survivor ... testimonies describe the ordeals of prisoners, but little documents the totally different world in which the ... is especially valuable. How can one understand how the Holocaust occurred without looking at the
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1028. Hidden Children: Quest for Family
. Preserving Memory Immediately after the war, Holocaust survivors began to document the Nazis' crimes ... German rule, Jewish organizations rushed in to locate survivors and reunite families. In place after ... place, they faced the devastation wrought by the Holocaust. In Lodz, Poland, for example, the Nazis had ... tracing services, newspaper notices, and survivor registries in the hope of finding their children
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1029. Ben Ferencz and the Fight for International Justice
Holocaust survivors by recovering property stolen by Nazi Germany from its victims. In the 1950s, he helped ... world law, the same cruel mentality that made the Holocaust possible might one day destroy the entire ... German documents and their own testimony, Ferencz prosecuted 22 SS officers ... negotiate West Germany’s agreement to pay reparations to Nazi victims. He also helped Jewish survivors
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1030. Bergen-Belsen
Anne Frank, the most well known child diarist of the Holocaust era. Background ... of new prisoners, many of them survivors of forced evacuations on foot, overwhelmed the meager ... 1945. Conditions Bergen-Belsen was hell on earth. —testimony of Alice ... displaced persons camp that housed more than 12,000 survivors. It was located in a German military
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1031. The Doctors Trial: The Medical Case of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings
survivors will appear in this courtroom. But most of these miserable victims were slaughtered outright or ... testimony of 85 witnesses and the submission of almost 1,500 documents, the American judges pronounced their
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1032. Lesbians under the Nazi Regime
cultures and backgrounds. In postwar memoirs and testimonies, some camp survivors described lesbians in the ... First-hand testimonies, memoirs, and diaries of former prisoners reveal that prisoners had sexual ... that very few lesbians shared testimonies about their experiences during this time. This is partially
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1033. Lackenbach (Roma internment and transit camp)
given tasks, including children as young as ten. While some survivors remember that the children were ... provisions was not only recalled by numerous survivors, but also featured in the camp logbook: “Wednesday ... whether their conditions qualified former internees for survivors' benefits. These contain various reports ... and witness testimony and are held in the Österreichisches Staatsarchiv, Archiv der Republik (Austrian
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1034. Nuremberg Trials
including the crimes of the Holocaust. Their trial was held before an International Military Tribunal (IMT ... convicted and 37 were sentenced to death, including 12 of those tried by the IMT. Holocaust crimes were ... highest authority, the person most to blame for the Holocaust, was missing at the trials. Adolf Hitler had ... plan and carry out the deportations of millions of Jews, was brought to trial in Israel. The testimony
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1035. Recognition of US Liberating Army Units
In February 1985, two Holocaust survivors—Sigmund Strochlitz and Benjamin ... Strochlitz and Meed were serving then as co-chairpersons on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council ... Administration, not oral testimony; and to accord liberator status to those divisions arriving at the site within ... who walk through our doors each year. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum honors the
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1036. Bremen-Farge
interviews from survivors originate from prisoners of this transport. Little is known about the period during ... transported. The French survivor Raymond Portefaix has stated that one's life expectancy fell dramatically on ... originates from survivors' statements. Most of the material is to be found in AG-NG. There are a few files in ... 's testimony of 1947, originally published in French, is reproduced in “Vernichtung durch Arbeit”: Das
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1037. Westerbork
was a key location in their experience of the Holocaust. More than 100 ... . Transports were a traumatic experience for Jews in Westerbork. Witness testimonies mention confusion ... known survivor of this transport. The best known person
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1038. Lidice: The Annihilation of a Czech Town
survivors, 143 women and 17 children, faced a devastating reality at the end of World War II. Their family ... Despite their horrifying experiences, two young Lidice survivors, Marie Doležalová and Marie Hanfová ... and were among the children forced to undergo Germanization. In their testimonies, they described what ... . Many of the Lidice survivors worked at the memorial and attempted to keep the memory of the original
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1039. The Search for Perpetrators
Some Holocaust survivors sought to keep the issue of justice for Nazi crimes alive. Chief among these ... Certain private individuals played an outsize role in the search for justice for Holocaust crimes, most ... prosecuted. The 1961 trial was televised and extensively covered by international media. The testimony of ... . Another event that raised awareness of the Holocaust particularly in West Germany was the Frankfurt
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1040. Mass Shootings at Babyn Yar (Babi Yar)
Dina Pronicheva, a Jewish survivor of the September massacre, testified before a Soviet court. In ... one of her written postwar testimonies, Pronicheva described what she saw at Babyn Yar ... Yar became a symbol of struggles over the memory of World War II and the Holocaust in the Soviet Union
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1041. Elie Wiesel
was one of the most famous survivors of the Holocaust and a world-renowned ... Night, recounts his suffering as a teenager at Auschwitz and has become a classic of Holocaust ... deported to Auschwitz. Only he and two of his three sisters survived the Holocaust ... . Wiesel advocated tirelessly for remembering about and learning from the Holocaust. He was a driving force
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1042. Oradour-sur-Glane
testimony of SS Captain Otto Kahn. Okrent stayed the proceeding in January 1945, concluding that “military ... search after the massacre, either in Oradour-sur-Glane or anywhere else. Moreover, survivors stated that
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1043. Genocide of European Roma (Gypsies), 1939–1945
the late recognition and recording of the genocide. Survivor testimony and forensic evidence are still ... many of them. The fate of the survivors is unknown. It is likely that the SS murdered those who were ... during the period of the Holocaust. This reflects the fact that we
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1044. [Documents related to Poland during the Nazi period]
certificates, testimonies, and various applications.
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1045. [Untitled and Miscellaneous Forms or Documents]
Social Welfare forms, Power of Attorney forms, Mission orders, Notifications, Testimonies, Family
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1046. Abraham Lewenson testifies
Testimonies of Holocaust survivors generated interest in Jewish resistance. The trial prompted a new openness
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1047. Dachau - ID Card/Oral History
Dachau survivors and US Army veterans share their testimonies.
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1048. Dachau (Abridged Article) - ID Card/Oral History
Dachau survivors and US Army veterans share their testimonies.
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1049. Gay Men under the Nazi Regime
concentration camp system. According to many survivor accounts, pink triangle prisoners were among the most ... number of gay Jewish men were murdered in the Holocaust ... Many gay men were afraid to share their testimonies or write memoirs. Nonetheless, scholars have sought
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1050. Names from files of the Municipal Court in Warsaw
concentration camps, or murdered in ghettos or places of extermination. The files contain Holocaust-related ... contain applications for establishing that someone had died, testimonies of two witnesses on standard ... Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland