liberation
"I was 17. I was free, but what it meant I wasn't sure."
"We took wagonload after wagonload of bodies out to the grave site."
"They couldn't drink anything, so we had to feed them with medicine droppers."
"I was 17. I was free, but what it meant I wasn't sure."
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Norbert Wollheim
Born 1913
Berlin, GermanyDescribes liberation at Schwerin, in northeast Germany, in May 1945
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Edwarda Kleinfeld Rorat
Born Warsaw, Poland
Describes emotions upon liberation
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George Salton
Born 1928
Przemysl, PolandDescribes liberation by American forces
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Abraham Klausner
Born in the US
Describes postwar efforts to reunite survivors
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Fela Warschau
Born 1926
Describes, while in a DP camp, reading lists of names to find surviving family members
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"A skeleton covered with skin, with big blue eyes. And as I turned to look whose reflection I saw, I realized that was my reflection."
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Nesse Galperin Godin
Born 1928
Siauliai, LithuaniaDescribes her appearance at liberation
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Nesse Galperin Godin
Born 1928
Siauliai, LithuaniaDescribes seeing her reflection in a mirror upon liberation
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"We took wagonload after wagonload of bodies out to the grave site."
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Raymond Buch
Born 1920
New York CityDescribes forcing civilians to bury the dead
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Colonel Richard R. Seibel
Born 1907
Defiance, OhioDescribes U.S. army procedures for burial of the dead after liberation of Mauthausen
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"They couldn't drink anything, so we had to feed them with medicine droppers."
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Pat Lynch
Born United States
Describes condition of surviving camp inmates upon liberation
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Colonel Richard R. Seibel
Born 1907
Defiance, OhioDescribes food distribution after liberation of the Mauthausen camp
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Colonel Richard R. Seibel
Born 1907
Defiance, OhioDescribes aid given to survivors after liberation in Mauthausen and their plans for emigration
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Pat Lynch
Born United States
Describes the establishment of a hospital to care for liberated camp survivors
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Pat Lynch
Born United States
Describes caring for starving and critically ill camp survivors
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Pat Lynch
Born United States
Describes treating survivors in a subcamp of Dachau
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"There were women scattered over the floor on scraps of straw, some, some of them quite obviously with the mark of death on their faces."
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Henny Fletcher Aronsen
Born 1924
Kovno, LithuaniaDescribes liberation from a death march from Stutthof
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Gerda Weissmann Klein
Born 1924
Bielsko, PolandDescribes liberation in Czechoslovakia by U.S. soldier
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Kurt Klein
Born 1920
Waldorf, GermanyDescribes a group of death march survivors found in a Czechoslovak village
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Alan Zimm
Born 1920
Kolo, PolandDescribes liberation from Bergen-Belsen
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Charlene Schiff
Born 1929
Horochow, PolandDescribes her liberation by Soviet troops
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Dr. Harold Herbst
Born 1912
New York CityDescribes meeting a prisoner on the verge of death (known as a "Muselmann") in Buchenwald
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Herbert A. Friedman
Born 1918
New Haven, ConnecticutDescribes finding two child survivors after liberation
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