Video: 'N Special Report: Reagan Presents Congressional Gold Medal to Elie Wiesel'
(Friday, April 19, 1985) — U.S. President Ronald Reagan listened intently today as Elie Wiesel, chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, implored him to cancel a visit to a German cemetery where Nazi war dead are buried.
“That place, Mr. President, is not your place,” Wiesel told Reagan at White House ceremonies honoring the 56-year-old writer. “Your place is with the victims of the SS.”
Video: 'Memory of the Camps 1985 PL hardsubs DVBRip' (liberation at 50:58)
(Thursday, April 19, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — Leipzig-Thekla, a subcamp of the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Leipzig, Germany, was liberated today by the U.S. 69th Infantry Division.
The camp had been established in September 1943 to supply labor for the German war effort. At its height, Leipzig-Thekla held approximately 1,400 prisoners.
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: 'OSKAR SCHINDLER FUNERAL ENTREVISTA LEGENDADO'
(Monday, October 28, 1974) — Oskar Schindler, who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories, was buried today at the Catholic cemetery on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, 19 days after dying in Frankfurt, West Germany, at age 66. Schindler was the only member of the Nazi Party to be honored in this way. Continue reading Holocaust rescuer Oskar Schindler buried in Israel 40 years ago today (Oct 28 1974)
