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Duty Calls: WWII soldier, Cohoes native ID'd after POW camp death
Army Maj. James J. O’Donovan, a native of Cohoes, was finally laid to rest 80 years after he died in a prisoner of war camp ...
Sachsenhausen concentration camp: Nazi terror near Berlin
Sachsenhausen concentration camp was liberated on April 22, 1945. Even now, the descendants of the victims are stepping up ...
During WWII, Oklahoma's Thunderbirds fought across Europe. Fate led them to Dachau
Gen. George Patton gave the Thunderbirds high praise, saying "the 45th Infantry Division is one of the best, if not the best.
Jersey Shore veteran's riveting story of liberating Dachau rings out from beyond the grave
Jack Dougherty was just 21 years old in 1945 when he and fellow soldiers came across something they could not fathom — the Dachau concentration camp.
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101-year-old WWII veteran recalls US Army’s seder night, weeks before liberating Dachau
Hilbert Margol still regularly speaks about the atrocities he saw firsthand at the notorious Nazi concentration camp as a ...
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How Bergen-Belsen, Where Anne Frank Died, Was Different From Every Other Nazi Concentration Camp
A new exhibition at the Wiener Holocaust Library in London chronicles the German camp complex's history, from its origins ...
80 years after Edward R. Murrow revealed the horrors of Buchenwald, the camp still has a vital story to tell
CBS News' Edward R. Murrow was shocked by what he saw at the just-liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945. Work continues to ensure the world never forgets.
From Dachau to Paris, local WWII vet saw war's horrors, absurdity
Gulf Breeze resident Army Private First Class Arthur Lynch, 99, one of the dwindling number of remaining WWII veterans, ...
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‘A Voice for the Silenced’ and the Terezin composers lost to the Holocaust
Each night at 6 p.m. this week, CPR Classical airs a five-part look at the composers persecuted by the Nazis. Seventy years after World War II ended, their music still resonates. Each night at 7 p.m.
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Irmgard Furchner, the last person convicted in Germany of Holocaust crimes, is dead at 99
was handed a two-year suspended sentence in 2022 for complicity in the murder of more than 10,000 people at the Stutthof concentration camp in occupied Poland during World War II, according to AFP.