He was born in 1898 in the town of Chausy in the Mogilev Region and was taken to the Mauthausen concentration camp at the end of 1943, from where he was later transferred to the Ebensee branch.

1 minutes SachsenhausenFSB The Russian FSB has published a segment from the investigation of the commandant of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where approximately 100,000 people were murdered.

When the liberators reached the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, they encountered around 3,000 prisoners, nurses and doctors. For around 300 of the prisoners, however, the Polish and Soviet ...

Prisoner tags from Nazi concentration camps “To be dispossessed of one’s own name is among the most far-reaching and profound mutilations of the self. It documents the termination of one’s previous ...

Today, a memorial and museum stand on the site of the former camp complex, commemorating the roughly 50,000 concentration camp prisoners and nearly 20,000 Soviet POWs who died on its grounds.

A groundbreaking study has traced the final moments of the German concentration camp that was liberated on April 11, 1945. Based mainly on American archives that were overlooked until now, it ...

List of former prisoners of Ebensee Concentration Camp. The prisoners are all Polish nationals. The list contains name, concentration camp number, sex, age, place of birth, nationality, type of ...

He ended up at the concentration camp in Ebensee, which would not be liberated until May 9, with the arrival of US soldiers from the 80th Infantry Division of General Patton’s Third Army.

Their neighbours included former camp prisoners, whose reasons for returning to Auschwitz were shaped by both practical needs and a deep sense of duty. After the war, Poland faced severe housing ...

The Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated 80 years ago. Sport was a daily practice in the Nazi concentration camps. The Nazi concentration camps were places of horror and death, of torture ...

Warsaw, Poland — Stanislawa Wasilewska was 42 when she was captured by Nazi German troops on Aug. 31, 1944 in Warsaw and sent to the women's concentration camp at Ravensbrück. From there, she ...

More than 30 handmade chess pieces were uncovered at Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland inside a former prisoner block during recent renovation work. News.com.au Cajzer said the haunting ...