When Nordhausen concentration camp in Thuringia was liberated by the 104th US Infantry Division on April 12, 1945, the soldiers found horrific scenes. Over 3,000 corpses were scattered around the camp.
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The 8th Army Breaks Open a Concentration Camp in Italy – Picture Post, 1943
Six weeks after Mussolini’s downfall, in September 1943, the British 8th Army liberated an Italian internment camp in Ferramonti.
Photographing the Holocaust
When the very first photos from Belsen Bergen and Buchenwald concentration camps were released in the […]
Anne Frank
If a single individual could be held up to “personify” the Holocaust, that person would […]
Believe It by Lee Miller, 1945
Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated twelve hours before Miller arrived and her dispatches from there was one of the first reports on the Holocaust for the American public.
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Its title was mirthless: “Es gibt keinen jüdischen Wohnbezirk in Warschau mehr!” (The Jewish Quarter […]
Last Jew in Vinnitsa
In summer 1941, in their push to invade Soviet Union, Adolf Hitler’s German army marched […]