Video: 'Bergen-Belsen concentration camp'

(Sunday, April 15, 1945, afternoon CEST; 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 70 years ago today (Apr 15 1945) →

Video: 'WW2: Gardelegen Massacre "Murder Inc" | Civilians, Osterath | Allied Bombing in Hof, Germany (1945)'

(Friday, April 13, 1945; 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.

Most of the prisoners were burned alive; some were shot trying to escape. Continue reading Nazis kill 1,016 slave laborers in Gardelegen massacre 70 years ago today (Apr 13 1945) →

Video: 'Westerbork Transit Camp, The Netherlands HD'

(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 70 years ago today (Apr 12 1945) →

Video: 'Buchenwald Concentration Camp'

(Wednesday, April 11, 1945, 3:15 p.m. CEST; 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 70 years ago this hour (Apr 11 1945) →

Video: 'Nordhausen concentration camp victims, Germany. HD Stock Footage'

(Wednesday, April 11, 1945; 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.

Around one in three of the roughly 60,000 prisoners who were sent to Mittelbau since it was established in late summer 1943 as a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp did not survive.

Video: 'Ohrdruf Concentration Camp Liberation April 4, 1945'

(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 70 years ago today (Apr 4 1945) →

Video: 'Anniversity of the Liberation of 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 70 years ago today (Feb 14 1945) →

Video: 'Holocaust- The Liberation Of Auschwitz' (parts 1-3)

(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 70 years ago this hour (Jan 27 1945) →

Video: 'Chelmno (Holocaust death camp)'

(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. Up to 340,000 victims, the vast majority of whom were Jews, had been murdered at the camp since operations began on December 8, 1941.

Video: 'Popular Raoul Wallenberg Videos'

(Wednesday, January 17, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews, disappeared today in Hungary while in Soviet custody.