Category Archives: The Holocaust

Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen liberated 80 years ago today (Apr 15 1945)


Video: 'Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp — Footage from Liberation // Colorized & Restored'

(Sunday, April 15, 1945, afternoon Central European Summer Time; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — 60,000 (mostly sick) prisoners at the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle, were liberated today by British and Canadian troops. Continue reading Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen liberated 80 years ago today (Apr 15 1945)

Nazis murder 1,016 slave laborers in Gardelegen massacre 80 years ago today (Apr 13 1945)


Video: 'The HORRIFIC Burning Alive Of The Concentration Camp Prisoners'

(Friday, April 13, 1945 evening Central European Summer Time; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — German SS and Luftwaffe troops forced 1,016 slave laborers (who were part of a transport evacuated from the Mittelbau-Dora labor camp) into a large barn on the Isenschnibbe estate near the northern German town of Gardelegen, which was then lit on fire. Continue reading Nazis murder 1,016 slave laborers in Gardelegen massacre 80 years ago today (Apr 13 1945)

Nazi transit camp Westerbork liberated 80 years ago today (Apr 12 1945)


Video: 'Camp Westerbork: the 'Perfect Camp' in German-Occupied Netherlands in World War II'

(Thursday, April 12, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The Nazi transit camp Westerbork near Hooghalen, in the northeastern Netherlands, where Romani and Dutch Jews were assembled for transport to other Nazi concentration camps, was liberated today by Canadian troops. Continue reading Nazi transit camp Westerbork liberated 80 years ago today (Apr 12 1945)

Nazi concentration camp Nordhausen-Dora liberated 80 years ago this hour (Apr 11 1945)


Video: 'Mittelbau-Dora/Nordhausen - The camp where the Nazis built their V2-rockets'

(Wednesday, April 11, 1945 approximately 6:30 p.m. Central European Summer Time; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The Nazi concentration camp Mittelbau-Dora (also Dora-Mittelbau and Nordhausen-Dora) near Nordhausen in Thuringia, Germany, which supplied labor for extending the nearby tunnels in the Kohnstein and for manufacturing the V-2 rocket and the V-1 flying bomb, was liberated today by U.S. troops. Continue reading Nazi concentration camp Nordhausen-Dora liberated 80 years ago this hour (Apr 11 1945)

Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald liberated 80 years ago this hour (Apr 11 1945)


Video: 'WWII Triumph and Despair' (Buchenwald at 18:53)

(Wednesday, April 11, 1945, 3:30 p.m. Central European Summer Time; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany, where prisoners from all over Europe and the Soviet Union worked primarily as forced labor in local armaments factories, was liberated today by U.S. troops. Continue reading Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald liberated 80 years ago this hour (Apr 11 1945)

U.S. Army liberates Nazi concentration camp for first time 80 years ago today (Apr 4 1945)


Video: 'Corpses found at the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp'

(Wednesday, April 4, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The Ohrdruf concentration camp, a Nazi forced labor and concentration camp located near Ohrdruf, south of Gotha, in Thuringia, Germany (part of the Buchenwald concentration camp network), was liberated today by the 4th Armored Division and the 89th Infantry Division. Continue reading U.S. Army liberates Nazi concentration camp for first time 80 years ago today (Apr 4 1945)

Gross-Rosen concentration camp in Germany liberated by Red Army 80 years ago today (Feb 14 1945)


Video: 'One reason why this camp was considered the most horrible | Gross-Rosen'

(Wednesday, February 14, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The Gross-Rosen concentration camp, a Nazi German network of Nazi concentration camps built and operated in the village of Gross-Rosen not far from the border with occupied Poland, was captured today by the Red Army. Continue reading Gross-Rosen concentration camp in Germany liberated by Red Army 80 years ago today (Feb 14 1945)

Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland liberated by Soviets 80 years ago this hour (Jan 27 1945)


Video: 'The Liberation Of Auschwitz - Bringing Freedom To The Death Camp'

(Saturday, January 27, 1945, at around 3:00 p.m. local time; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — 7,500 prisoners (including Otto Frank, the father of diarist Anne Frank) at Auschwitz, a network of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps near the German-occupied Polish town of Oswiecim, were liberated this afternoon as soldiers of the 60th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front marched into the camp, ten days after 58,000 detainees were evacuated under guard, largely on foot. Continue reading Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland liberated by Soviets 80 years ago this hour (Jan 27 1945)

FDR sworn in for unprecedented fourth term as U.S. President, Truman as 34th VP 80 years ago this hour (Jan 20 1945)


Video: 'Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1945 Presidential Inauguration'

(Saturday, January 20 1945, a few minutes after noon EWT) — Franklin Delano Roosevelt, nearing his sixty-third birthday, stood today at the White House bareheaded and without an outside coat, despite raw, wintry weather, to become the nation’s first fourth-term President. Continue reading FDR sworn in for unprecedented fourth term as U.S. President, Truman as 34th VP 80 years ago this hour (Jan 20 1945)

Soviets liberate Chelmno extermination camp in Poland 80 years ago today (Jan 20 1945)


Video: 'Chelmno Extermination Camp English Version'

(Saturday, January 20, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II)Chelmno, a Nazi German extermination camp situated 31 miles from Lodz near the Polish village of Chelmno nad Nerem, was liberated today by the Soviets, two days after operations had ceased. Continue reading Soviets liberate Chelmno extermination camp in Poland 80 years ago today (Jan 20 1945)