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1. Liberation
some of the first widely circulated photographs from concentration camps. American soldiers who ... liberated concentration camps, or toured the newly freed camps, wrote letters to their families to tell them ... about what they had seen. Liberation Learn about the liberation of concentration camp prisoners in the ... Holocaust Encyclopedia.
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2. No Longer Safe
during Kristallnacht, Ruth’s father was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp ... Her father died in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1940. Her mother was shot after she was ... . Although Ruth would not learn their fates for years, both of her parents were murdered in the Holocaust
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3. Displaced Persons
and liberated concentration camps, freeing hundreds of thousands of Holocaust survivors, many of whom ... the last camp in 1957, approximately 140,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors immigrated to the United ... ,000 Jews. American, Soviet, British, and French occupying forces set up displaced persons (DP) camps to ... house them. In the first few months after the war ended, the camps were places of suffering and hunger
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4. Citizens or Enemies?
them in concentration camps.” —Congressman John Rankin (Mississippi), 1942 In February 1942, two months ... in camps. Pearl Harbor Learn more about the attack on Pearl Harbor in the Holocaust Encyclopedia ... ancestry—at least two-thirds of whom were American citizens—to ten camps across seven inland states
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5. Attacks on Jews Shock Americans
shops. Nearly 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps. American newspapers ... territories. Learn more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia. Explore our Collections View oral histories about and
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6. Oral History: Edward Adler
Adler’s relationship, denounced him to the Gestapo. Edward was arrested and sent to a concentration camp ... survive the Holocaust. USC Shoah Foundation—The Institute for Visual History and Education
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7. Oral History: Jana Malish
for help again. Authorities later deported Jana to a concentration camp, but she managed to ... ghetto’s Jews to camps and killing centers in 1942, the local Jewish community hoped to bribe them to stop ... survive the Holocaust. USC Shoah Foundation—The Institute for Visual History and Education