Displaying: 1 11 of 11 matches for “concentration camps”
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1. Franz Goldberger
efforts to bring Goldberger to safety were unsuccessful—he was deported to a concentration camp and ... Majdanek concentration camp on August 20, 1942. Helen Roseland, Hazel Hostetter, and the staff at the ... the Majdanek concentration camp on August 20, 1942. Courtesy of the Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku. ... Nazi forced-labor camp near Vienna. He wrote to Helen Roseland immediately after being released in
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2. Anthony Acevedo
prisoner of war (POW) in the Berga forced labor camp, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. While ... which he managed to keep after he was sent to the Berga concentration camp, 1945. US Holocaust Memorial ... concentration camp. Many of the prisoners, including the American POWs, were forced to work excavating tunnels ... camp for political prisoners in Bad Orb, Germany. Tony Acevedo as a member of the US Army in France
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3. A Young Life Interrupted
sounds of refugee camp life surrounding her. Instead of feeling jealous of life on the outside, she just ... loved ones. Life in the Camps I can’t bring my friends over because the hut is so small ... . She no longer sees friends at school. There are no schools for teenage girls in the refugee camp where ... parents rarely allow her to leave the hut because they fear potential predators in the overcrowded camps
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4. Timeline
Opens Dachau Concentration Camp Shortly after the Nazis came to power, they opened the Dachau ... concentration camp. Dachau and other camps held political prisoners and people whom Nazi ideology marked as ... paramilitaries to loot businesses owned by Jews and burn synagogues. Many Jews were arrested and sent to camps ... occupiers murdered Jews in mass shootings and deported them to ghettos, camps, and killing centers. As Nazi
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5. The United States Committee for the Care of European Children Getting Children to Safety
refugees from children’s homes and French internment camps. Some of the children’s parents had ... AFSC staff that Ruth’s father, who was Jewish, had been killed by the Germans in a concentration ... camp. Helene, who was not Jewish, was imprisoned in a French internment camp and had sent Ruth to a
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6. Richard Schifter
1942, either in the Majdan Tatarski ghetto or in the Majdanek concentration camp. US Army Soldier ... capture and occupation of the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia). In early 1944, he was reassigned to Camp
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7. Henry Morgenthau Jr.
were still in concentration camp uniforms and living behind barbed wire, and reported that the Allies ... Roosevelt’s attention. Among other activities, the WRB opened Fort Ontario, a refugee camp in the United ... from within the American Jewish community that Holocaust survivors were being treated terribly in camps ... situation. Harrison spent several weeks touring thirty displaced persons camps in Germany and Austria, and
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8. Max and Fanny Valfer
worship. He was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp where the trauma he experienced convinced him ... members from the Camp de Gurs in southwest France, following their expulsion from Germany. “I still ... Despite the terrible camp conditions, Max and Fanny could still communicate with their children in America ... American consulate in Marseille. In May 1941, Max was transferred to the Les Milles “emigration camp
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9. Herta Griffel
Trostinets concentration camp on September 14, 1942. She died four days later. Reflecting on her experiences
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10. Otto Frank
in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in early spring 1945. When Frank returned to Amsterdam after ... to the Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands, and then placed on the final train sent from
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11. Raymond Geist
I would have little influence on the gates of the concentration camps, which now and then I manage