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“Tell us who were there that it never happened”; Lt. Col. Felix Sparks Dachau Liberator’s Speech
Return to Liberators || Return to Witnesses"Tell us who were there that it never happened"
Remarks of Lt. Col. Felix Sparks Dachau Liberator
given on May 8, 1995 at the U.S. Holocaust Museum.I have before me...
Children of Survivors
Homosexuals in the Holocaust
Return to WitnessesHomosexuals in the Holocaust faced a disturbing reality, as an estimated 500,000 were killed. Coming out of the 1920's which was a more open time for homosexuals in the Weimar...
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Another Angel for God by Charles V. Ferree
The story of a liberator, a survivor from Terezin (aka Theresienstadt) as written by Chuck Ferree.
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T4 Medical Killing Program
T4 Medical Killing Program
The camouflage organization created for the medical killing of adults was known as the Reich Work Group of Sanatoriums and Nursing Homes (Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft Heil- und Pflegeanstalten, or RAG). It operated from...
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Holocaust survivor: Alfredo F. Vorshirm
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Holocaust survivor: Alfredo F. Vorshirm Dear Friend,It is the interest of this 74 y/o Holocaust survivor to have his message distributed and view as widely as possible, for the purpose mentioned in the...
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Ellen Nielsen Story
Return to Witnesses Ellen Nielsen StoryMrs. Ellen Nielsen, who lived in a town near Copenhagen, lost her husband in 1941, and became a fishmonger on the Copenhagen docks ...
Education and the Holocaust
Escapees from Auschwitz – Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Weczler
Escapees from Auschwitz
"On April 7, 1944, two Slovakian Jews, twenty-six-year-old Alfred Weczler and twenty-year-old Rudolf Vrba, escaped from Auschwitz. They provided the first eyewitness account of the concentration and extermination camp to the western...
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Numbers of Holocaust Refugees That Canada (Didn’t) Accept
Return to WitnessesNumbers of Holocaust Refugees That Canada (Didn't) Accept
"During the twelve years of Nazi terror, from 1933 to 1945, while the United States accepted more than 200,000 Jewish refuges; Palestine, 125,000;...