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    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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    Auschwitz concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz, pronounced [kɔntsɛntʁaˈtsi̯oːnsˌlaːɡɐ ˈʔaʊʃvɪts] ; also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz)...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    The Warsaw concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager Warschau, KL Warschau; see other names) was a German concentration camp in occupied Poland...
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    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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    Margot Friedländer (category Theresienstadt Ghetto survivors)
    Gestapo in 1943. She was captured in April 1944 and deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp, but survived. After emigrating to the United States with...
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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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    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Westerbork transit camp
    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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    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 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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    Alfred Gudeman (category American people who died in Nazi concentration camps)
    remained. He was classified as a Jew and deported to the Nazi Theresienstadt concentration camp, where he died in 1942.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates...
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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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    Yehuda Bacon (category Auschwitz concentration camp survivors)
    his family from Ostrava to the Ghetto Theresienstadt, where he shared a room with George Brady. In Theresienstadt he played in the children's opera Brundibár...
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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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    Kurt Gerron (category German people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp)
    Reich. Camden House. p. 3. [Kurt Gerron] arrived in the concentration camp of Theresienstadt in 1944 and was forced by the SS to stage the review Karussell...
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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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    Leo Baeck (category Jewish concentration camp survivors)
    deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Baeck became the "honorary head" of the Council of Elders (Judenrat) in Theresienstadt. As such, he was...
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