Liberation of concentration camps

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Vera Goodkin's [Annotator's Note: née Herman] parents had an American visa to escape Czechoslovakia but did not. While...
Abe Milkis found the German troops to be good fighters. At the end, the enemy soldiers were just a bunch of young kids...
George Shenkle [Annotator's Note: serving with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] remembers...
Stanley James Thurston feels it is important for young people to learn the truth about what happened in the Second...
Robert Boeke remembers Dachau [Annotator's Note: Dachau concentration camp complex near Dachau, Germany] as the most...
Howard Chandler feels it is important to teach the Holocaust so it is not repeated. It is necessary to know the history...
William Kracov's most memorable experiences of World War 2 relate to being awarded two Bronze Stars [Annotator's Note:...
Louis Frydman took advantage of situations and made the best of them. Upon arriving in the United States, he and his...
Eva Gross and her Hungarian relatives seldom visited prior to the Nazi entry into Hungary. Gross did spend summers with...
The war ended while Irving Miller was in the hospital. He was discharged on the point system. Everyone talked about the...
Henry Feldman benefitted from his time in the Army. He had difficulty adjusting to having family and especially...
Leona Kleiner reflects on her liberation. The American soldiers were kind to them and took care of them. She was in the...
M. Edward Melton thought the end of the war was simple. They were fighting old men instead of young men. They liberated...
James F. Dorris, Jr. could not believe how cruel the Germans could be to other humans [Annotator's Note: when his unit...
Delbert Wombacher was in Reims [Annotator's Note: Reims, France]. A call came out from headquarters, who knew they had...
Edward "Babe" Heffron was looking forward to reuniting with a couple of broads [Annotator's Note: females] upon his...
Irving Baum slept, had breakfast and went back in [Annotator's Note: to the Dachau concentration camp complex near...
Walter Sapp returned to the United States in April 1946. He tried to go to school. He selected four or five colleges he...
When Mason Dorsey was returning to the United States, he says that if they would have said they were returning to...
Joseph P. Fulco returned to New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York], where he entered a hospital before being...
Robert Fisch returned to Hungary which was in the Russian zone of occupation. The occupiers took from the returning...
James F. Dorris, Jr. met a man named Daniel Fischer [Annotator’s Note: unsure of spelling; unable to confirm identity]...
The next action Robert Huber and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 3rd Battalion, 415th Infantry Regiment, 104th...
Benjamin Schleider and the 6th Armored Division took Mühlhausen, Germany with serious, but spotty, resistance. There...
Judith Meisel and her sister were treated nicely at the convent [Annotator's Note: they had just escaped a death march...
Mann went to the enclosure where the camp prisoners were located. The prisoners were rejoicing about their liberation....
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 doesn't recall smelling the camp before seeing it. Dachau was not as much of an extermination camp as it was a...
Baum recalls the POWs at Hammelburg and the concentration camps victims they encountered. They brought their...
Dan Baker would send patrols out to the German lines. In one instance he sent three men out, but only two came back....
They moved to Palermo. They did some road work there and tried to catch up with the infantry.Fortunately, they were not...
They moved on south into Bavaria. The war ended while they were in Rosenheim.When they went overseas they were told not...
They proceeded on and went to the Rhine River, in the town of Remagen. Troops ahead of them had secured the Remagen...
For the remainder of the war Michael Cokinos was a company commander in the 83rd Infantry Division. He served as a...
Clinton Gardner had been in Bastogne a week before it was captured because his outfit was helping with the Red Ball...

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