Concentration camps

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Hoff, Russell D. Bad Orb
Russell Hoff reached Bad Orb and was assigned to a barracks in the camp. When a group of Americans killed a German...
Quigley, Tom Concentration Camps and Culture Shock
After the Battle of the Bulge Tom Quigley was taken out of combat and sent to a hospital due to an injury to his back...
Miksa, Robert Experiences in Germany
Before being discharged from the hospital, Bob Miksa [Annotator’s Note: Robert Miksa] returned to his unit by lifting a...
Acevedo, Anthony From Bad Orb to Berga
Anthony Acevedo was picked to be part of a group of 350 Jewish and other undesirables being sent to Berga in the Ulster...
Miksa, Robert Germany and Czechoslovakia
Bob Miksa [Annotator’s Note: Robert Miksa] and the 745th Tank Battalion passed right through the Siegfried Lines...
Wichterich, George Last Weeks of the War
[Annotators Note: George Wichterich served as a platoon sergeant in the 823rd Tank Destroyer Battalion, 30th Infantry...
Friedenberg, Bernard Postwar
Bernard Friedenberg passed through Camp Lucky Strike on his way home after the war. He remembers passing the Statue of...
Milkis, Abe Reflections
Abe Milkis found the German troops to be good fighters. At the end, the enemy soldiers were just a bunch of young kids...
Mann, Karl Segment 10
Mann went to the enclosure where the camp prisoners were located. The prisoners were rejoicing about their liberation....
Mann, Karl Segment 11
Many of the I Company GIs were upset at what they had seen, some more so than others.The I Company commander "lost it."...
Mann, Karl Segment 12
Mann doesn't recall smelling the camp before seeing it. Dachau was not as much of an extermination camp as it was a...
Gardner, Clinton Segment 6
Clinton Gardner witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald and noted there were close to 55,000 to 56,000 deaths in the...
Zager, Raymond Segment 6
Raymond Zager drove into the compound [Annotator's Note: Gunskirchen Lager Concentration Camp in Austria]. There were...
Ettlinger, Harry Segment 7
The rest of it [Annotator’s Note: of art found underground by Ettlinger], the 97%, were returned to their German owners...
Baker, Dan Segment 7
Dan Baker’s worst combat moment occurred during his first day in battle outside of Strasburg. A German sniper fired at...
Rackley, Clifford Segment 7
On the mission to Blechhammer one of Rackley's partner's lost an engine. He saw the cowling fly off of the engine. His...
Gardner, Clinton Segment 8
Clinton Gardner never thought of his own death but watched a few hundred men die. Gardner got sick and threw up around...
Gardner, Clinton Segment 9
Clinton Gardner notes that Elie Wiesel and his father were in the little camp at Buchenwald. Wiesel was in the camp...
Mann, Karl Segment 9
Aschaffenburg, Germany was secured quickly. The Germans sent word that they wanted to surrender but would only do so to...
Acevedo, Anthony The Camps
Anthony Acevedo does not know much about Bad Orb. During peace time it was a center for health. Even so, Acevedo never...
Acevedo, Anthony Treating the Sick and Wounded
When Anthony Acevedo first arrived at Berga he could not see the camp. There were political prisoners there but they...
A crematorium oven where the corpses of prisoners were burned in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near Bergen, Germany, 1945-46
A crematorium oven where the corpses of prisoners were burned in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; view from a few...
A pile of corpses at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in 1945
A pile of corpses of emaciated prisoners at a concentration camp, after liberation. Similar to 2008.002.028, 2008.002....
A pile of corpses at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in 1945
A pile of corpses of emaciated prisoners at a concentration camp, after liberation. Similar to 2008.002.027, 2008.002....
A pile of corpses at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in 1945
A pile of corpses of emaciated prisoners at a concentration camp, after liberation. The two corpses in background are...
A pile of corpses at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in 1945
A pile of corpses of emaciated prisoners at a concentration camp, after liberation. Similar to 2008.002.027, 2008.002....
Dachau barracks as seen from above
Dachau barracks as seen from above. "Dachau camp." Germany. 1945
Entrance into gas chambers at Dachau concentration camp in Germany, 1945-46
Entrance into gas chambers at Dachau. "Dachau concentration camp (gas chambers)." Dachau, Germany. 1945-46
Holocaust victims at a camp, probably in Poland in 1945
Holocaust victims at a camp. Probably in Poland. 1945
Mock-up of beating post and victim at Buchenwald in Germany in 1945
Mock-up of beating post and victim at Buchenwald concentration camp, after liberation. The sign reads: Modell! Das...
Mock-up of hanging post and victim at Buchenwald in Germany in 1945
Mock-up of hanging post and victim at Buchenwald concentration camp, after liberation. The sign reads: Ein Strafvollzug...
Portrait of emaciated prisoner at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in 1945
Portrait of emaciated prisoner at concentration camp, after liberation. Similar to 2008.002.031. "20. No explanation."...
Portrait of emaciated prisoner at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in 1945
Portrait of emaciated prisoner at concentration camp, after liberation. Similar to 2008.002.022. Buchenwald, Weimar,...