Written by zachor_foundation on October 21, 2014
America’s 45th Infantry Liberates Dachau – On April 29, 1945, the U.S. Seventh Army’s 45th Infantry Division liberates Dachau’s main camp after a brief battle with the camp’s remaining guards. A major Dachau subcamp was liberated the same day by the 42nd Rainbow Division. Dachau, originally intended to hold political prisoners was the first of the Nazi concentration camps opened in Germany and served as a model training center for all other camps. The prisoner’s entrance was secured by an
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The Allies´ landing in France and the Soviets´ rapid progress on the eastern front prompted a group of Germans to conspire against Hitler. Aware that he was leading Germany to utter destruction, they believed that if they continued to stay their hand, the Allies would no longer agree to negotiate with a new German administration. The anti-Hitler conspirators were not well organized, but they managed to recruit Lt.-Col. Count Klaus von Stauffenberg, a courageous soldier who had lost an eye,
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
After battles on the outskirts of the city, the Red Army occupied Lvov on July 22, 1944. A large majority of the 110,000 Jews who had inhabited this city before the war had long since been murdered. A few Jewish prisoners from the Janowska camp, whom the Germans had employed and considered “crucial,” were murdered as the Soviets drew closer in June 1944. A very small number were transferred to the West. Manhunts for concealed Jews in Lvov lasted until
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