Films
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“A monument is to be raised at the site of the Belsen camp”
Bergen-Belsen after liberation
A newsreel about Bergen-Belsen after liberation, 1945 (2 mins)
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“It was only a short walk from any German city to the nearest concentration camp”
Death Mills
A US documentary on the camps (22 mins)
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“Nothing equalled the atrocities of Auschwitz”
The Liberation of Auschwitz
A Soviet documentary, 1945 (21 mins)
Video testimony
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“… my God, they were skeletons, I mean skeletons …”
Christa M
A German civilian (21 mins)
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“They threw in the Zyklon gas”
David Nencel 1
A survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Special Squad (60 mins)
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“The time of the uprising was supposed to be 4.30”
David Nencel 2
A survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Special Squad (33 mins)
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“I had such yearning, I still feel it in my bones, I had such yearning to live, to run, to just run away”
Edith P
A Jewish survivor of Auschwitz and Salzwedel (31 mins)
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“I became known as a habitual criminal in the eyes of the Nazi party”
Edward Adler
A German Jew on Sachsenhausen before the war (57 mins)
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“I didn’t realize that I too had become a part of this machinery of death”
Hans Maršálek
An Austrian political prisoner and survivor of Mauthausen (40 mins)
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“Our aim was to defy Hitler, to do everything we can to live”
Helen K
A Jewish survivor of Majdanek and Auschwitz (30 mins)
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“I remember x-rays, x-rays and injections”
Irene Hizme and Rene Slotkin
Czech twins deported to Auschwitz as children (59 mins)
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“The tiniest mistake was punishable by hanging”
Konstantin Shilov
A Soviet officer, survivor of Mauthausen (36 mins)
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“He enjoyed mocking us and working us to death”
Leon Ceglarz
A Polish political prisoner, survivor of Dachau and Mauthausen (29 mins)
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“One minute you been alive, the next minute you been dead”
Magda Blau
A Slovakian Jew on conditions in Auschwitz (59 mins)
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“The Gypsies didn’t have a chance”
Michael Horvath
An Austrian Gypsy, survivor of Dachau, Buchenwald and Mauthausen (33 mins)
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“I was sent to work in the quarry”
Miron Abramov
A Ukrainian slave labourer and survivor of Mauthausen (33 mins)
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“I looked into the mirror, and … I couldn’t believe myself that that's me”
Norbert Wollheim
A German Jew on life and death in Auschwitz (32 mins)
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“There was no violence”
Pery Broad
A former SS man on mass murder in Auschwitz (25 mins)
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“I had various preparations for escape made”
Rudolf Vrba 1
A Slovak Jew on his escape from Auschwitz (8 mins)
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“All the property of the people who came to Auschwitz was collected”
Rudolf Vrba 2
A Slovak Jew on arrivals of Jews in Auschwitz (34 mins)
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“I heard a German woman say: 'It smells again of Jews'”
Thomas Buergenthal
A child survivor of Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen (50 mins)
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“There never was a single individual that said: 'I am sorry'”
William Denson
A US prosecutor of concentration camp perpetrators (17 mins)
Written testimony
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“We thought food, we dreamt food, we talked food”
Fanny Heilbut
A German Jew on the suffering in Bergen-Belsen
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“The work consisted of preparing the mixture for the grenades or, in another part of the factory, mines”
Gertrud Deak
A Hungarian Jew on slave labour for the German war industry
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“There were many different types of camps in the German occupied countries”
Joseph Berman
A Latvian Jew on the Riga satellite camp Dondangen
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“We arrived in the notorious camp of Buchenwald, a name of horror for every Jew and all decent people in Germany”
P Rosten
Writing in 1950, a German Jew describes the suffering of Jews in Buchenwald after the 1938 pogrom
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“As a medical orderly he was severe and had to be”
Richard van Dam
A Dutch Jew on Kapos in Auschwitz
Audio testimony
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“I marched along with them for two days but then I simply couldn’t and I knew I would be shot”
Nelly Bondy
An Austrian Jew and Auschwitz survivor, speaking in 1946 (77 mins)
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“He was speaking to me without any consciousness that he just had committed a murder”
Otto Feuer
An Austrian Jew on surviving Buchenwald, speaking in 1946 (80 mins)
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