concentration camps

Starting in January 1945, in the last months of the Third Reich, about 250,000 inmates of concentration camps perished on death marches and in countless incidents of mass slaughter. They were murdered with merciless brutality by their SS guards, by army and police units, and often by gangs of civilians as they passed through German and Austrian towns and villages. In this first comprehensive attempt to answer the questions raised by this final murderous rampage, the author draws on the testimonies of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders. In its exploration of a topic nearly neglected in the current history of the Shoah, this book offers unusual insight into the workings, and the unraveling, of the Nazi regime.

The Swedish Red Cross expedition to the concentration camps from March to April 1945 was the largest rescue effort inside Germany during the Second World War.

These are the stories of the American soldiers, the "everyday fighting men", and the nurses, who were the first to know the horrifying truth about the Holocaust because they liberated the death camps. The liberators' recollections are historically important. Most are now in their eighties and nineties and many still suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder and continue to experience Holocaust-related nightmares.

Includes a survey of all the Holocaust sites in Europe. There is also an extensive reference to the many museums and memorials which commemorate the Holocaust.

Kimi Grant's grandmother was a missing link to Kimi's Japanese heritage. Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, all Kimi wanted was to fit in and she ignored traditional Japanese cuisine and her grandfather's attempts to teach her the language. But Kimi was interested in one part of her grandparents lives: they had been prisoners in the Japanese American camps out west during World War II.

Focuses on the treatment of the gypsies of Europe by the Nazis during World War II and addresses the questions of when they were actually interned in the camps, deportation, and extermination.

During the early war years, 11,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, most of them American citizens, were interned in ten relocation centers. The largest of these was Manzanar, which was bounded by barbed wire and guard towers. There, they waited for the war to end so they could resume their lives.

More than fifteen POW camps housed German prisoners of war in Minnesota during World War II. This narrative details camp history, where they were, how the camps worked, how POW's contributed to Minnesota's and the U.S. economy, and how and when the camps ended.

Documents the fifteen assembly centers, ten relocation centers, and the internment camps that Japanese-Americans were moved to during World War II. Information is based on archival research, field visits, and interviews with former residents.

Army pilot William E. Dyess describes his time in and escape from a prisoner of war camp on the Bataan peninsula during World War II.