2010~The Year of the Liberator~Liberation of slave labor camp at Neusalz, Poland.
{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.}
February 15, 1945
[caption id="attachment_557" align="alignleft" width="480" caption=" After the liberation of the Flossenbürg concentration camp, two U.S. army infantrymen examine a pile of shoes belonging to victims of the camp. Flossenbürg, Germany, May 1945.USHMM."]
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The Red Army overruns and liberates a slave labor camp at Neusalz, Poland. On January 26th, one thousand Jewish women interned there are set on a month and a half forced march to the concentration camp at Flossenbürg, 200 miles away in south east Germany near the Czech border. Most of these women do not make it to Flossenbürg; most are beaten to death or shot.
Source(s): Weber, Louis. The Holocaust Chronicle. Publications International Ltd., 2007. www.holocaustchronicle.org/staticPages/594.html
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005537
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The Red Army overruns and liberates a slave labor camp at Neusalz, Poland. On January 26th, one thousand Jewish women interned there are set on a month and a half forced march to the concentration camp at Flossenbürg, 200 miles away in south east Germany near the Czech border. Most of these women do not make it to Flossenbürg; most are beaten to death or shot.
Source(s): Weber, Louis. The Holocaust Chronicle. Publications International Ltd., 2007. www.holocaustchronicle.org/staticPages/594.html
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005537
