Thousands of Jewish children fled to Britain and other European countries in the 1938-39 rescue mission known as the ...

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.

Indeed, the punishment of detainees directly furthers his power as a strongman. In this way, and others, CECOT qualifies not only as a prison but a concentration camp.

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.

At 68, Anna refers to herself as “the last prisoner of Auschwitz”, not because she endured its horrors firsthand, but because her life has been shaped, even dictated, by the camp’s legacy. “I think I ...

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 ...