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Jewish women liberated from concentration camps under the Bernadotte Agreement arrive in Malmö, Sweden. One woman reacts with joy in response to the kind person who has offered her a glass of milk. Count Folke Bernadotte arranged the Swedish rescue of nearly 30,000 survivors, mostly from the Ravensbrück concentration camp.
Photo: Judiska Kvinnoklubben
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U.S. troops discovered these charred bodies when they entered the camp at Thekla, Germany. Margaret Bourke-White, a correspondent for Life magazine, described one of the corpses, that of a professor from Poland, with these words: "The shriveled lower half of his body lay in cinders...with his charred crutch close by, but the fine intellectual bald head thrust through to the outside [of the camp's fence] was still unmarred, with even the spectacles in place. He must have been much loved; the survivors shed many tears over him."
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Most smaller camps employed diesel-powered engines to create the gas used to murder their victims, but the Nazis often improvised (above) to carry out their grisly tasks.
Photo: National Archives/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archive
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April 4, 1945: Jews toiling in quarries at Gotha, Germany, are murdered by their Nazi overseers.
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April 8, 1945: Jewish inmates are marched out of the concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany, to the camp at Flossenbürg, Germany, 100 miles to the southeast. Non-Jewish prisoners are left behind to await the advancing Americans. A few Jews are able to hide and avoid the march; See April 11, 1945.
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