Moravia (German-occupied Czechoslovakia). Theresienstadt served as a waystation to the extermination camps. Its conditions were deliberately engineered...
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he had been a member of the Nazi Party since 1933. Theresienstadt was a hybrid concentration camp and ghetto established by the SS in November 1941 in...
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inmates from the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, who were held in the BIIb section of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp from 8 September...
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Flossenbürg was a Nazi concentration camp built in May 1938 by the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office. Unlike other concentration camps, it was located...
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also from Latvia, Poland, Hungary and the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Vaivara was one of the last camps established. It existed from August 1943...
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position title for a female guard in Nazi concentration camps. Of the 50,000 guards who served in the concentration camps, training records indicate that approximately...
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Auschwitz concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz, pronounced [kɔntsɛntʁaˈtsi̯oːnsˌlaːɡɐ ˈʔaʊʃvɪts] ; also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz)...
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Kaufering was a system of eleven subcamps of the Dachau concentration camp which operated between 18 June 1944 and 27 April 1945 and which were located...
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Jasenovac (pronounced [jasěnoʋat͡s]) was a concentration and extermination camp established in the village of the same name by the authorities of the Independent...
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thousand concentration camps (German: Konzentrationslager), including subcamps on its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe. The first camps were...
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The Warsaw concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager Warschau, KL Warschau; see other names) was a German concentration camp in occupied Poland...
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filmmaker Karel Pečený under close SS supervision in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, and edited by Pečený's company, Aktualita. Filmed mostly...
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The Uckermark concentration camp was a small German concentration camp for young women near the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Fürstenberg/Havel, Germany...
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Anschluss and at the age of 83, in August 1942, was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp, where she died two months later. Josefine Winter, daughter...
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Small Fortress (Terezín) (redirect from Small Fortress (Theresienstadt))
expostfacto.nl. Retrieved 2022-09-08. "Theresienstadt Lexikon: Josef Wollenweber". www.ghetto-theresienstadt.de. Retrieved 2022-09-08. "Nazi Crimes on...
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Gidon Lev (category Jewish concentration camp survivors)
ghetto of Theresienstadt between the ages of 6 and 10. Of the 9,000 children imprisoned in or transported through Theresienstadt concentration camp, he is...
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and Theresienstadt. The last transport left Sereď on 31 March 1945, shortly before its liberation by the Red Army. The labour and concentration camps in...
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established by a transport of 500 men from Dachau concentration camp, who arrived at nearby Theresienstadt Small Fortress on 24 or 25 March 1944. Due to the...
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Leo Haas (category Nazi concentration camp survivors)
his wife were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where he joined the group of artists of Theresienstadt around Bedřich Fritta from Prague...
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Berthold Guthmann (category German people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp)
deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp in September 1942. In late 1942 the remaining Jews in Wiesbaden were arrested and moved to a camp at Frankfurt...
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waves to Auschwitz concentration camp (65 train-loads totaling 60,330 people), Sobibór (19 train-loads; 34,313 people), Theresienstadt ghetto and Bergen-Belsen...
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Leitmeritz concentration camp The phrase "Nazi concentration camp" is often used loosely to refer to various types of internment sites operated by Nazi...
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Zuzana Růžičková (category Auschwitz concentration camp survivors)
sent to Auschwitz after nearly two years in the camp. She was given the option to remain in Theresienstadt, but chose to go with her mother. Before her transport...
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Siegfried Lederer's escape from Auschwitz (category Jewish escapees from Nazi concentration camps)
Auschwitz concentration camp as a guard. Pestek was an SS Rottenführer, which was a junior non-commissioned rank. Jews transported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz...
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The Banjica concentration camp (German: KZ Banjica, Serbian: Бањички логор, Banjički logor) was a Nazi German concentration camp in the Territory of the...
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Siegfried Seidl (category Theresienstadt concentration camp personnel)
Austrian career officer and World War II commandant of the Theresienstadt concentration camp located in the present-day Czech Republic. He was also the...
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Rudolf Gelbard (category Jewish concentration camp survivors)
parents were transported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. 19 members of Gelbard's family died at Theresienstadt, but Gelbard survived because he...
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Lety concentration camp was a World War II internment camp for Romani people from Bohemia and Moravia during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia....
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The Lost Train (category Bergen-Belsen concentration camp)
the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to Theresienstadt during the final phase of World War II as Allied troops approached the camp. The train was halted...
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Rudolf Höss (category Auschwitz concentration camp personnel)
1947) was a German SS officer and the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of World War II, he...
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