Displaying: 1 11 of 11 matches for “SS and the holocaust”
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1. Hitler thanks members of the SA and SS
In this German newsreel footage, Hitler addresses members of the SA and the SS in the ... Sportpalast, a sports arena in Berlin, Germany. He thanks them for their support and sacrifice during the Nazi
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2. Miso (Michael) Vogel describes the brutality of SS guards towards new arrivals at Auschwitz
Miso lived. In 1942, Miso was deported to the Slovak-run Novaky camp and ... He was forced to labor in the Buna works and then in the Birkenau
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3. Sandor (Shony) Alex Braun describes playing the violin for SS guards in Dachau. after two prisoners before him had been killed
Transylvanian city. He began to learn the violin at age 5. His town was occupied by Hungary in 1940 and by ... Poland. He was transferred to the Natzweiler camp system in France and
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4. Saul Ingber describes forced labor and brutality in the Gusen subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp
liberated by US troops in May 1945. After the war he returned to his hometown and was reunited with his ... and married his wife, Miriam. Saul, his wife, and their two children settled in the United States in
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5. US veteran Raymond Buch describes forcing civilians to bury the dead
As a US Army sergeant, Raymond fought in the Battle of the Bulge ... In May 1945, his unit was deployed to the Mauthausen camp in Austria to
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6. Harold Herbst describes meeting a prisoner on the verge of death (known as a "Muselmann") in Buchenwald
He was attached to the 107th Evacuation Hospital. The unit trained in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and ... Buchenwald shortly after the SS guards fled the camp in April 1945.
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7. Oranienburg camp
Berlin in March 1933. The first prisoners were German political prisoners, primarily Communists and ... run by the SS. ... The Storm Troopers (SA) established the Oranienburg camp near ... Social Democrats. Oranienburg became known for the maltreatment of inmates. Here, the Nazis attempt to
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8. Liberation of Ohrdruf
General Dwight D. Eisenhower and other American officers inspect conditions in the Ohrdruf ... concentration camp shortly after the liberation of the camp. As American forces had approached, SS camp guards ... US military to require Nazis and local German civilians to view the camps. ... shot the remaining prisoners before abandoning the camp. Confirmation of such atrocities prompted the
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9. "St. Louis" arrives in Antwerp
The German ship SS "St. Louis" departed from Hamburg for Cuba with almost 1,000 Jewish refugees ... to Europe, docking at Antwerp. Britain, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands then agreed to accept ... on board on May 13, 1939. Most of the passengers had Cuban landing certificates. However, the Cuban ... government invalidated the certificates. When the "St. Louis" reached Havana on May 27, most of its
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10. Pogrom in Lvov
against Jews. They stripped and beat Jewish women and men in the streets of Lvov. Ukrainian partisans ... this 8mm footage in SS barracks in Augsberg, Germany, after the war. ... The Soviet Union occupied Lvov in September 1939, according to secret provisions of the German ... -Soviet Pact. Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, occupying Lvov within a week. The Germans
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11. Leo Kutner describes forced labor in Stutthof
Leo was arrested on the first day of the war, and assigned to forced labor in a shipyard, then ... he upholstered furniture for the SS. The following year, he was sent to ... Auschwitz, where he cleaned the streets and dug ditches. As the Allies neared, Leo was evacuated to a series ... Flossenbürg, the Nazis dispersed, allowing Leo and other prisoners to get away. He was liberated by US forces