Classroom Activity: Liberation and Survival

Part I: Liberation of the Nazi Camps

What was Liberation?
During World War II, Jews who lived in Germany or in countries that had been occupied by Germany were imprisoned in labor camps, concentration camps, and death camps. They were liberated from these camps by Soviet, British and American soldiers in 1944 and 1945.
The first concentration camp to be liberated was Majdanek. The prisoners in Majdanek were liberated by Soviet troops in July 1944. Soon thereafter Soviet troops found other Nazi camps, and set their inmates free as well.
British and American troops reached Nazi camps in Spring 1945, liberating tens of thousands of prisoners.

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