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Seven inmates, one Jewish, escape from a concentration camp 1944 Poland Majdanek: Cemetery of Europe: Aleksander Ford: One of the first films to include footage of concentration camps 1945 Soviet Union The Unvanquished: Mark Donskoy: First feature film to show mass murder of Jews and hunting for them on the occupied territories. 1946 Venice ...
Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author who served as a "haftling" doctor in the Auschwitz main camp. He coined the phrase 'concentration camp syndrome', now more generally referred to as 'survivor's guilt' and 'post-traumatic stress disorder'. [58] His memoir, ‘Last Stop Auschwitz’ is the only survivor testimony written in Auschwitz.
Accounts of the concentration camps – both condemnatory and sympathetic – were publicized outside of Germany before World War II. [106] Many survivors testified about their experiences or wrote memoirs after the war. Some of these accounts have become internationally famous, such as Primo Levi's 1947 book, If This is a Man. [107]
According to the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, there were 23 main concentration camps (German: Stammlager), of which most had a system of satellite camps. [1] Including the satellite camps, the total number of Nazi concentration camps that existed at one point in time is at least a thousand, although these did not all exist at the same time.
[5] [6] [4] Millions were also murdered in concentration camps, in the Aktion T4, or directly on site. [7] The National Socialists made no secret of the existence of concentration camps as early as 1933, as they served as a deterrent to resistance. The extermination camps, on the other hand, were kept strictly secret.
It has been 80 years since the Soviet Army liberated Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration complex. First established in 1940, Auschwitz had a concentration camp, large gas chambers, and ...
The number of deaths in the Buchenwald concentration camp is estimated to have been 56,545, a mortality rate of 20% averaged over all prisoners transferred to the camp between its founding in 1937 and its liberation in 1945. Deaths were due both to the harsh conditions of life in the camp and also to the executions carried out by camp overseers.
Polish resistance movement in World War II: Auschwitz: Roman Kantor: 1912–1943: Polish: fencer; Olympian Jewish: Majdanek concentration camp: Józef Klotz: 1900–1941: Polish: Polish national soccer team Jewish: killed in the Warsaw Ghetto: Janusz Kusociński: 1907–1940: Polish: athlete;1932 Los Angeles men's athletics gold medalist