Prisoner Resistance in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald ...

The purpose of this study, therefore, is to examine the resistance organizations in Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps using firsthand accounts and to ...

"Prisoner Resistance in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald ...

A great deal has been written about the Holocaust and about resistance organizations that formed in the concentration camps. Much of this literature, ...

Prisoner mutinies / Resistance / History / Auschwitz-Birkenau

The resistance movement in the camp planned and made preparations for an armed mutiny against the SS by the prisoners. The Polish underground outside was to ...

Buchenwald concentration camp - Holocaust History - LibGuides

There were no women prisoners until several years after the camp's opening. in late 1943 or early 1944. At its height, in February 1945, the ...

Prisoner Revolt at Auschwitz-Birkenau | Holocaust Encyclopedia

On October 7, 1944, prisoners assigned to Crematorium IV at the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center rebel after learning that they were going to be killed.

Escapes and reports / Resistance / History / Auschwitz-Birkenau

It has been established so far that 928 prisoners attempted to escape from the Auschwitz camp complex-878 men and 50 women.

Buchenwald Resistance - Wikipedia

The Buchenwald Resistance was a resistance group of prisoners at Buchenwald concentration camp. It involved Communists, Social Democrats, ...

Buchenwald Concentration Camp and the Rescue of Jews

In January 1945 the Germans began to evacuate Auschwitz and other camps in the East in face of the advancing Red Army. Many thousands of inmates – many of them ...

“You Couldn't Grasp It All”: American Forces Enter Buchenwald

As the Red Army drove deeper into Poland in the winter of 1944-45, inmates from Auschwitz-Birkenau were transported to the camp. Before the ...

Resistance group in Buchenwald meets with US troops

Buchenwald, Germany, after April 11, 1945. In early April 1945, as US forces approached the camp, the Germans began to evacuate some 28,000 prisoners from the ...

Resistance – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools

They criticised the Nazis persecution and oppression of Jews, and called for wider resistance to Nazi rule. ... The Buchenwald prisoner card of Artem Sanjuk, a ...

Historical overview: Concentration Camp - Buchenwald Memorial

The number of prisoners steadily increased over the course of 1938. As part of the "Arbeitsscheu Reich" (ARS) initiative— targeting "work-shy" persons in the ...

Dutch inmates

Most were resistance fighters, whom the SS used for forced labour in the German weapons industry. There were also Dutch Jews deported to Buchenwald, but they ...

The Liberation of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora

With the arrival of thousands of exhausted and emaciated prisoners, most of them Jews, from previously abandoned camps like Auschwitz, prisoner ...

Resistance - Wollheim Memorial

g After liberation, Leon Stasiak stated: “The political underground movement in Monowitz consisted mostly of political prisoners who had come from Buchenwald.

Buchenwald Concentration Camp - Frank Falla Archive

It was the largest concentration camp in the German Reich with a total of over 280,000 total prisoners from all over Europe, more than 64,000 of whom died ...

Buchenwald concentration camp - Wikipedia

All prisoners worked primarily as forced labor in local armaments factories. The insufficient food and poor conditions, as well as deliberate executions, led to ...

Buchenwald | The National Holocaust Centre and Museum

Many Prisoners of War were executed at Buchenwald, most of these people were never officially recorded. Sub-camps. Between 1942 and 1945, 136 ...

11 April 1945: Liberation of Buchenwald

Shortly before the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and other camps in Eastern Europe, prisoners were marched from those camps to Buchenwald. In January 1945 ...

Typhus experiments on humans at Buchenwald

Robert Waitz, MD, PhD, 1900–1978, haematologist, member of the French Resistance during the Second World War, prisoner doctor in Auschwitz-Birkenau ...