Return to The Aftermath | Facts Hoess – “A True Pioneer” HOESS, RUDOLF FRANZ (1900-1947)… In 1934 he was attached to the SS at Dachau … 1940 given rank of SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer in command at the Auschwitz camp. [He] was responsible for the execution of more than 2.5 million inmates, not counting a half million who…
Return to Children of Survivors. If you are a child or grandchild of a Holocaust survivor(s) who is interested in communicating online with others like yourself, this page is for you. There are now two online mailing lists (discussion forums) that I am aware of that are expressly for children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors. …
Return to The Aftermath | Facts Dwight D. Eisenhower on the Camps This is what Eisenhower said on pages 408-9 of “Crusade in Europe” “The same day [April 12, 1945] I saw my first horror camp. It was near the town of Gotha. I have never felt able to describe my emotional reactions when…
Return to The Aftermath | Facts Helen Lazar’s Story of Liberation Our choices were to remain behind and hopefully be liberated by whoever was fighting, and it was the Russians I wasn’t for it. I really and truly was feeling more secure. It the not talking, the going to bed, the just living in total…
Return to The Aftermath | Facts Lucille Eichengreen’s Story of Liberation From Survivor’s Transcripts We stayed in this camp until the end of March 1945. Then they suddenly put us in trucks. We got off the trucks and they made us walk. We really didn’t walk very well at that time. I leaned on Ellie,…