He helped liberate Bergen-Belsen, the Nazi concentration camp where Anne Frank had died.
Tag: Concentration Camps
Holocaust Death Toll on English Channel Island Is Raised by Hundreds
A panel of academics said it found more conclusive evidence of how many people were killed during the Nazi occupation of Alderney, one of the Channel Islands in British territory.
Norman Miller, German Refugee Who Helped Arrest a Top Nazi, Dies at 99
At 15, he escaped to England. At 20, he enlisted in the British Army and identified a German minister — whose roles included deporting Dutch Jews to labor camps — as he tried to flee.
Josette Molland’s Testimony: Scenes of Life in Nazi Camps
In the 1980s, she created a series of paintings depicting the horrors she endured in forced-labor camps during World War II.
Josette Molland, Who Told of Life in Nazi Camps Through Art, Dies at 100
She endured horrors as a captured member of the French Resistance, and to ensure that her story, too, would survive, she depicted them years later in a series of stark paintings.
Wanda Poltawska, 101, Who Forged a Friendship With a Future Pope, Dies
She survived gruesome medical experimentation at the Ravensbrück concentration camp to become a psychiatrist — counseled by the priest who would become John Paul II.
Hannah Pick-Goslar, a Presence in Anne Frank’s Diary, Dies at 93
The two young women knew each other from kindergarten until their final encounter, on opposite sides of a barbed-wire fence in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
101-Year-Old Ex-Guard at Nazi Camp Is Convicted by German Court
The man, identified only as Josef S. because of German privacy laws, was sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of being an accessory to more than 3,500 murders.
Margot Heuman, Who Bore Witness to the Holocaust as a Gay Woman, Dies at 94
She was a rare survivor who spoke — in recent years — of her same-sex relationship in the concentration camps, and how it sustained her.
France’s New Prime Minister Overcame Tragedy in Her Youth
Élisabeth Borne’s father, a World War II resistance member and a Holocaust survivor, killed himself when she was 11, an experience she has rarely discussed in detail.