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Author : Brewster S. Chamberlin,Marcia Feldman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Concentration camps
ISBN : PURD:32754004380527
Eyewitness accounts and testimonies given at the First International Liberators Conference held in Washington, D.C. in Oct. 1981.
Author : Jon Bridgman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015019653446
Author : Jon Bridgman,Richard Hutton Jones
Publisher : B. T. Batsford Limited
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Concentration camps
ISBN : UVA:X001843827
Pp. 17-31 describe the liberation of the eastern camps (mainly Majdanek and Auschwitz) by the Soviet army. Pp. 33-102 give details on the liberation of five other camps - Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, and Theresienstadt. Discusses policies of Nazi leaders and camp commandants between July 1944-May 1945 in view of the advancing Allied forces, the circumstances of the liberation of each camp, and their effect on American and European perceptions of the war. Pp. 121-136 contain three accounts, by survivors, of their liberation: Clara Greenbaum (Bergen-Belsen), Simon Wiesenthal (Mauthausen), and Elie Wiesel (Buchenwald).
Author : Dan Stone
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300216035
A moving, deeply researched account of survivors’ experiences of liberation from Nazi death camps and the long, difficult years that followed When tortured inmates of Hitler’s concentration and extermination camps were liberated in 1944 and 1945, the horror of the atrocities came fully to light. It was easy for others to imagine the joyful relief of freed prisoners, yet for those who had survived the unimaginable, the experience of liberation was a slow, grueling journey back to life. In this unprecedented inquiry into the days, months, and years following the arrival of Allied forces at the Nazi camps, a foremost historian of the Holocaust draws on archival sources and especially on eyewitness testimonies to reveal the complex challenges liberated victims faced and the daunting tasks their liberators undertook to help them reclaim their shattered lives. Historian Dan Stone focuses on the survivors—their feelings of guilt, exhaustion, fear, shame for having survived, and devastating grief for lost family members; their immense medical problems; and their later demands to be released from Displaced Persons camps and resettled in countries of their own choosing. Stone also tracks the efforts of British, American, Canadian, and Russian liberators as they contended with survivors’ immediate needs, then grappled with longer-term issues that shaped the postwar world and ushered in the first chill of the Cold War years ahead.
Author : Brewster S. Chamberlin,Marcia Feldman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:16704629
Author : Chamberlin
Publisher : United States Government Printing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1987-06-01
Category : Concentration Camps
ISBN : 0160055148
Author : Robert H. Abzug
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015006194008
Combines historical narrative and analysis, first-person accounts, and photographs from official and private collections to tell the story of the liberation of German concentration camps as experienced by American soldiers and other eyewitnesses.
Author : John C. McManus
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421417660
The life-altering experiences of the American soldiers who liberated three Nazi concentration camps. On April 4, 1945, United States Army units from the 89th Infantry Division and the 4th Armored Division seized Ohrdruf, the first of many Nazi concentration camps to be liberated in Germany. In the weeks that followed, as more camps were discovered, thousands of soldiers came face to face with the monstrous reality of Hitler’s Germany. These men discovered the very depths of human-imposed cruelty and depravity: railroad cars stacked with emaciated, lifeless bodies; ovens full of incinerated human remains; warehouses filled with stolen shoes, clothes, luggage, and even eyeglasses; prison yards littered with implements of torture and dead bodies; and—perhaps most disturbing of all—the half-dead survivors of the camps. For the American soldiers of all ranks who witnessed such powerful evidence of Nazi crimes, the experience was life altering. Almost all were haunted for the rest of their lives by what they had seen, horrified that humans from ostensibly civilized societies were capable of such crimes. Military historian John C. McManus sheds new light on this often-overlooked aspect of the Holocaust. Drawing on a rich blend of archival sources and thousands of firsthand accounts—including unit journals, interviews, oral histories, memoirs, diaries, letters, and published recollections—Hell Before Their Very Eyes focuses on the experiences of the soldiers who liberated Ohrdruf, Buchenwald, and Dachau and their determination to bear witness to this horrific history.
Author : Nikolaus Wachsmann
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429943727
The first comprehensive history of the Nazi concentration camps In a landmark work of history, Nikolaus Wachsmann offers an unprecedented, integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from their inception in 1933 through their demise, seventy years ago, in the spring of 1945. The Third Reich has been studied in more depth than virtually any other period in history, and yet until now there has been no history of the camp system that tells the full story of its broad development and the everyday experiences of its inhabitants, both perpetrators and victims, and all those living in what Primo Levi called "the gray zone." In KL, Wachsmann fills this glaring gap in our understanding. He not only synthesizes a new generation of scholarly work, much of it untranslated and unknown outside of Germany, but also presents startling revelations, based on many years of archival research, about the functioning and scope of the camp system. Examining, close up, life and death inside the camps, and adopting a wider lens to show how the camp system was shaped by changing political, legal, social, economic, and military forces, Wachsmann produces a unified picture of the Nazi regime and its camps that we have never seen before. A boldly ambitious work of deep importance, KL is destined to be a classic in the history of the twentieth century.
Author : Nikolaus Wachsmann,Jane Caplan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135263225
Offers an overview of the scholarship that has changed the way the concentration camp system is studied over the years.
Author : Ben Shephard
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307424631
“I find it hard even now to get into focus all these horrors, my mind is really quite incapable of taking in everything I saw because it was all so completely foreign to everything I had previously believed or thought possible.” British Major Ben Barnett’s words echoed the sentiments shared by medical students, Allied soldiers, members of the clergy, ambulance drivers, and relief workers who found themselves utterly unprepared to comprehend, much less tend to, the indescribable trauma of those who survived at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The liberation of Bergen-Belsen by the British in April 1945 was a defining point in history: the moment the world finally became inescapably aware of the Holocaust. But what happened after Belsen was liberated is still a matter of dispute. Was it an epic of medical heroism or the culmination of thirteen years of indifference to the fate of Europe’s Jews? This startling investigation by acclaimed documentary filmmaker and historian Ben Shephard draws on an extraordinary range of materials–contemporary diaries, military documents, and survivors’ testimonies–to reconstruct six weeks at Belsen beginning on April 15, 1945, and reveals what actually caused the post-liberation deaths of nearly 14,000 concentration camp inmates who might otherwise have lived. Why did it take almost two weeks to organize a proper medical response? Why were the medical teams sent to Belsen so poorly equipped? Why, when specialists did arrive, did they get so much of the medicine plain wrong? For the first time, Shephard explores the humanitarian and medical issues surrounding the liberation of the camp and provides a detailed, illuminating account that is far more complex than had been previously revealed. This gripping book confronts the terrifying aftermath of war with questions that still haunt us today.
Author : Joanne Reilly
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0415138272
The military and medical liberation and British government and British population response to the disclosure of what occurred at Belsen.
Author : United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Publisher : Holocaust Library
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Holocaust survivors
ISBN : UOM:39015080739660
This book focuses on the spring of 1945 when the Allied advance into Germany uncovered numerous concentration camps and later when the Allied occupying forces established assembly centers to temporarily house survivors awaiting new destinations. For many of these holocaust survivors, liberation was both a release from terror and the beginning a new phase of nothingness and homelessness.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1991-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0849049172
Author : Ian Baxter
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399048804
As the Allies closed in on Hitler’s Germany the horror and scale of the Final Solution and concentration camps became all too apparent. This latest Images of War book provides the reader a truly disturbing insight into the Nazi’s brutal regime of wholesale murder, torture and starvation. While the Germans attempted to hide the evidence by demolishing much of the camps’ infrastructure, the pace of the Soviets’ advance through Poland meant that the gas chambers at Majdenak near Lublin were captured intact. Auschwitz had received over a million deportees yet when liberated in January 1945 only a few thousand prisoners were there as the vast majority of surviving prisoners had been sent on forced death marches to more westerly camps such as Ravensbruch and Buchenwald. Condition in these camps deteriorated further due to overcrowding and the spread of deadly diseases. In every camp shocking scenes of death and starvation were encountered. When British troops reached Bergen-Belsen in April 1945, there were some 10,000 unburied dead in addition to the mass graves, in addition to 60,000 starving and sick inmates in utterly appalling conditions. The words and images in this disturbing book are a timely reminder of man’s inhumanity to his fellows and that such behavior should never be repeated.