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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 ...
The film or miniseries must be concerned with World War II (or the War of Ethiopia and the Sino-Japanese War) and include events which feature as a part of the war effort. For short films, see the List of World War II short films. For documentaries, see the List of World War II documentary films and the List of Allied propaganda films of World ...
Deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp on September 8, 1942, where he helped to organize cultural life. Transferred to Auschwitz on October 16, 1944. Rafael Schächter: May 25, 1905: January 1945: 39 Jewish Composer, pianist and conductor. Helped to organize cultural life in Theresienstadt concentration camp. Died on the death march ...
Davidovka concentration camp: András Székely: 1909–1943: Hungarian: swimmer, Olympic silver (200-m breaststroke) and bronze (4x200-m freestyle relay) Jewish: killed at a forced labor camp in Chernihiv, Ukraine Bronisław Czech: 1908–1944: Polish: skier: Olympian Polish resistance movement in World War II: Auschwitz: Roman Kantor: 1912 ...
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]
Despite many deaths, as many as 200,000 Jews survived the war inside the concentration camps. [321] Although most Holocaust victims were never imprisoned in a concentration camp, the image of these camps is a popular symbol of the Holocaust. [322] Including the Soviet prisoners of war, 13 million people were brought to Germany for forced labor ...
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.
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.