camps
"The minute the gates opened up, we heard screams, barking of dogs."
"'Our courage is not shackled/ Life is marvelously beautiful…'"
"The minute the gates opened up, we heard screams, barking of dogs."
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Alice Lok Cahana
Born 1929
Budapest, HungaryDescribes arrival at Bergen-Belsen
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Helen Lebowitz Goldkind
Born 1928
Volosianka, CzechoslovakiaDescribes treatment of new prisoners at Auschwitz
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Leo Schneiderman
Born 1921
Lodz, PolandDescribes arrival at Auschwitz, selection, and separation from his family
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"I would never believe that a person can survive standing in the outside in the wintertime without clothes for so long."
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Doriane Kurz
Born 1936
Vienna, AustriaRecalls Bergen-Belsen prisoners hauling wagons of corpses
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Ernest Koenig
Born 1917
Vienna, AustriaDescribes reaching the verge of death while in a subcamp of Auschwitz.
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Eddie Hellmuth Willner
Born 1926
Muenchen-Gladbach, GermanyDescribes conditions in Langenstein
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Leo Schneiderman
Born 1921
Lodz, PolandDescribes routine at the Ebensee camp
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"It ended up being called the death march, because the ravines and the gutters, they were all red from blood."
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Thomas Buergenthal
Born May 11, 1934
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Lily Mazur Margules
Born 1924
VilnaDescribes death march from a labor camp near Stutthof
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Lilly Appelbaum Malnik
Born 1928
Antwerp, BelgiumDescribes death march from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen
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Fritzie Weiss Fritzshall
Born 1929
Klucarky, CzechoslovakiaDescribes the death march from Auschwitz
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Steven Springfield
Born 1923
Riga, LatviaDescribes 1945 death march from Stutthof camp system (Burggraben camp)
Oral History
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"'Our courage is not shackled/ Life is marvelously beautiful…'"
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Israel Cendorf
Born May 19, 1902
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Bart Stern
Born 1926
HungaryDescribes torture of prisoners during Hanukkah and a subsequent act of spiritual resistance--a clandestine celebration of Hanukkah
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Sandor (Shony) Alex Braun
Born 1930
Cristuru-Secuiesc, RomaniaDescribes how music gave him the strength to survive while imprisoned in concentration camps
Oral History
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