{As part of the conclusion to my USHMM Teacher Fellowship project, I am posting the unfolding nature of the discovery of the camps as Allied troops closed in from the East and the West, sixty-five years to the day that the discovery/event occurred.} March 21, 1945: Red Army troops enter the Pruszcz, Poland, camp near Stutthof. Only [...]
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2010~The Year of the Liberator~March 31, 1945-U.S. Troops Investigate Hadamar euthanasia center.
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2010~The Year of the Liberator~March 19, 1945-The Death March and the Defining Moment.
Posted in Uncategorized on March 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
{As part of the conclusion to my USHMM Teacher Fellowship project, I am posting the unfolding nature of the discovery of the camps as Allied troops closed in from the East and the West, sixty-five years to the day that the discovery/event occurred.} March 19, 1945: Adolf Hitler issues the Nero-Befehl (Nero Order), a scorched-earth directive intended [...]
Holocaust survivors reunite with liberator nearly 65 years after they were freed
Posted in Uncategorized on March 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
March 5, 1945: The U.S. Ninth Army reaches the Rhine River south of Düsseldorf, Germany. By Travis Loller, Associated Press Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. Posted 3/5/2010 7:50 PM ET — Nearly 65 years ago a group of American soldiers advancing through Germany came upon a train loaded with 2,500 starving Jewish prisoners. For Frank Towers, who [...]
