Displaying: 26 36 of 36 matches for “Liberation of Concentration Camps”
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26. Nina Kaleska describes the formation of the ghettos in Grodno
Auschwitz concentration camp. Nina survived in the camp for two years. As the Soviet army advanced in 1945 ... Ravensbrueck camp in Germany and then to the Retzof-am-Richlin camp. Nina was liberated in May 1945, during a
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27. US nurse Pat Lynch describes treating survivors in a subcamp of Dachau
liberation of concentration camps in Europe. She cared for camp survivors ... many of whom were in critical condition upon liberation.
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28. Henny Fletcher Aronsen describes the importance she attached to the role of cleanliness in surviving forced labor at Stutthof
Stutthof concentration camp in 1944, when the Germans liquidated the Kovno ghetto. She was placed in a ... ghetto in November 1943; her dowry was a pound of sugar. She survived several roundups during which some
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29. German civilians forced to view atrocities committed in Buchenwald
US forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in April 1945. Here, US ... liberating troops had a policy of forcing German civilians to view the atrocities committed in the camps. ... soldiers escort German civilians from the nearby town of Weimar through the Buchenwald camp. The American
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30. US soldiers care for Dachau survivors
The Dachau concentration camp, northwest of Munich, Germany, was the first regular concentration ... liberated the camp. There were some 30,000 starving prisoners in the camp at that time. In this footage ... soldiers of the US Seventh Army feed and disinfect survivors of the camp. ... camp the Nazis established in 1933. About twelve years later, on April 29, 1945, US armed forces
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31. Jewish religious service at Dachau
US forces liberated the Dachau concentration camp in Germany in ... April 1945. Here, survivors of the camp stand during the singing of "Hatikva" ("Hope") before Rabbi ... David Eichhoren, a US army chaplain, leads one of the first Jewish prayer services after liberation.
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32. Reactions to film shown at Nuremberg
entered as evidence in the trial. It was filmed as Allied troops liberated the concentration camps. This ... The film "Nazi Concentration Camps" was presented in the courtroom on November 29, 1945, and ... clip shows the reactions of defendants and others in the courtroom following the screening of the film.
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33. Dorotka (Dora) Goldstein Roth describes retaliation against women for an escape from Stutthof
to the Stutthof concentration camp near ... the Germans occupied Vilna, Dora's father was shot and the rest of the family was confined in the ... Vilna ghetto. Dora, her sister, and her mother were deported to the Kaiserwald camp in Latvia and then ... Danzig. Her mother and sister perished in Stutthof. Dora herself was shot immediately before liberation
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34. Dorotka (Dora) Goldstein Roth describes conditions in the Vilna ghetto
to the Stutthof concentration camp near ... the Germans occupied Vilna, Dora's father was shot and the rest of the family was confined in the ... Vilna ghetto. Dora, her sister, and her mother were deported to the Kaiserwald camp in Latvia and then ... Danzig. Her mother and sister perished in Stutthof. Dora herself was shot immediately before liberation
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35. Henny Fletcher Aronsen describes a roundup in the Kovno ghetto
Stutthof concentration camp in 1944, when the Germans liquidated the Kovno ghetto. She was placed in a ... ghetto in November 1943; her dowry was a pound of sugar. She survived several roundups during which some ... of her friends and family were deported. Henny was herself deported to the ... advanced. After Soviet troops liberated Henny in 1945, she eventually reunited with her husband and moved
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36. Henny Fletcher Aronsen describes living conditions in the Kovno ghetto
Stutthof concentration camp in 1944, when the Germans liquidated the Kovno ghetto. She was placed in a ... ghetto in November 1943; her dowry was a pound of sugar. She survived several roundups during which some ... of her friends and family were deported. Henny was herself deported to the ... march as Soviet troops advanced. After Soviet troops liberated Henny in 1945, she eventually reunited