Lieutenant Donald Johnson, who was serving as an army medic in 1945, took the photographs during the liberation of Ohrdruf, the first concentration camp …
Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II.It consisted of Auschwitz I (the original concentration camp), Auschwitz II–Birkenau (a combination concentration/extermination camp), Auschwitz III–Monowitz (a labor camp …
Jul 04, 2008 · 1946: Eleven from the Stutthof concentration camp. July 4th, 2008 Headsman. On this date in 1946, officials of Soviet-occupied Poland publicly hanged eleven convicted war criminals of the Stutthof concentration camp.
The Sobibor death camp was located near the Sobibor village, which was located in the eastern part of the Lublin district of Poland, close to the Chelm – Wlodawa railway line.
The American Heritage Dictionary defines the term concentration camp as: “A camp where persons are confined, usually without hearings and typically under harsh conditions, often as a result of their membership in a …
Auschwitz-Birkenau became the killing centre where the largest numbers of European Jews were killed during the Holocaust.After an experimental gassing there in September 1941 of 850 malnourished and ill prisoners, mass murder became a daily routine.
A new exhibition in Germany opens up a subject that has long been taboo — the use of female concentration camp inmates to provide sexual services to male slave laborers as production incentives during World War II. “Hardly any other topic from the history of the concentration camps has, on the one
The women were taken into a furnished room. The barracks were different from the ones Margarete W., then 25, knew from her time at the Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp.
New book features testimonials from women who survived the horrors and heinous medical experiments suffered by prisoners at the hands of the Nazis at Ravensbruck concentration camp
Imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camp of Ravensbrück from 1941 to 1945, Wanda Poltawska was one of the many female prisoners forced by German physicians to endure inhumane and criminal medical experiments.
