Displaying: 1 10 of 10 matches for “holocaust concentration camps”
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1. Franz Goldberger
efforts to bring Goldberger to safety were unsuccessful—he was deported to a concentration camp and ... Majdanek concentration camp on August 20, 1942. Helen Roseland, Hazel Hostetter, and the staff at the ... the Majdanek concentration camp on August 20, 1942. Courtesy of the Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku. ... murdered in the Holocaust. Letter to a Stranger Professor Franz Goldberger, Vienna, ca. 1938. US Holocaust
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2. Anthony Acevedo
which he managed to keep after he was sent to the Berga concentration camp, 1945. US Holocaust Memorial ... prisoner of war (POW) in the Berga forced labor camp, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. While ... concentration camp. Many of the prisoners, including the American POWs, were forced to work excavating tunnels ... ’ deaths. Early Years Anthony “Tony” Acevedo in his army uniform, ca. 1943. US Holocaust
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3. The United States Committee for the Care of European Children Getting Children to Safety
Children, ca. 1941-1945. US Holocaust Memorial Museum. In May 1940, with Nazi Germany threatening to ... Holocaust Memorial Museum. Martha Sharp, a relief worker with the Unitarian Service Committee (USC ... refugees from children’s homes and French internment camps. Some of the children’s parents had ... been imprisoned and many were later deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and murdered in the Holocaust
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4. Timeline
Opens Dachau Concentration Camp Shortly after the Nazis came to power, they opened the Dachau ... concentration camp. Dachau and other camps held political prisoners and people whom Nazi ideology marked as ... Timeline Timeline This guide to key historical events during the Holocaust and World War II offers ... during the Holocaust and World War II offers background and context for the stories in this exhibition
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5. Richard Schifter
1942, either in the Majdan Tatarski ghetto or in the Majdanek concentration camp. US Army Soldier ... United States on his own., ca. 1938. US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Deciding to Leave Immigrating to the ... difficulty immigrating to the United States, June 27, 1941. US Holocaust Memorial Museum. After he arrived ... capture and occupation of the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia). In early 1944, he was reassigned to Camp
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6. Henry Morgenthau Jr.
from within the American Jewish community that Holocaust survivors were being treated terribly in camps ... were still in concentration camp uniforms and living behind barbed wire, and reported that the Allies ... Henry Morgenthau Jr., ca. 1938. US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Henry Morgenthau Jr. Henry Morgenthau Sr ... Churchill at their farm, Fishkill, in Hyde Park, NY, August 1943. US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Generally
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7. Herta Griffel
Trostinets concentration camp on September 14, 1942. She died four days later. Reflecting on her experiences ... her Jewish elementary school class in Vienna to survive the Holocaust. Leaving Vienna Herta Griffel ... with her mother, Beila, ca. 1938. US Holocaust Memorial Museum. In March 1938, Nazi Germany annexed ... her to the United States, ca. 1938. US Holocaust Memorial Museum. When they finally met, Adela shared
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8. Max and Fanny Valfer
worship. He was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp where the trauma he experienced convinced him ... members from the Camp de Gurs in southwest France, following their expulsion from Germany. “I still ... Despite the terrible camp conditions, Max and Fanny could still communicate with their children in America ... American consulate in Marseille. In May 1941, Max was transferred to the Les Milles “emigration camp
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9. Otto Frank
in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in early spring 1945. When Frank returned to Amsterdam after ... to the Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands, and then placed on the final train sent from ... Holocaust. His wife Edith was murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau, and daughters Margot and Anne died of typhus ... famous testimony of the Holocaust.
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10. Raymond Geist
I would have little influence on the gates of the concentration camps, which now and then I manage ... with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.