Minnesotans and The Holocaust: Survivors And Liberators

Images of Buchenwald, Images from Buchenwald by Minnesota GI Cyril John Corrigan.

"Liberation of the Western Concentration Camps: 1945", U.S. Army and personal photos.

Minnesotans and the Eugenics Movement, Scenes of the concentration camps taken by American GIs, scenes of survivors, resistance fighters and liberators.

Henry Oertelt, Survivor from Berlin, Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Flossenberg, author of An Unbroken Chain: My Journey Through the Nazi Holocaust.

My Name Was No. 133909 ... and I Sang, An autobiography by Murray Brandys as told to Karin B. Miller. Murray Brandys is a Holocaust survivor living in Minnesota.

Memoir by Abraham Alpert (PDF), Survivor from Poland who lived in New York and Florida and whose daughter, Sabina Cohen, lives in Minneapolis. Mr. Alpert passed away in 2002. The memoir was written in 1981 with the aid of Mrs. Cohen's husband, Professor Andrew Cohen, an applied linguist in the ESL department at the University of Minnesota.

Jack and Rochelle Sutin, Photos from Sutin's private collection showing life in the displaced persons camp Neu-Freimann after the war.

Ziwa Alexander Katz, Born in Lithuania, survived Siaulai ghetto and Stutthof Concentration Camp.

Witness to Barbarism, Horace R. Hansen's eyewitness accounts on Hitler and his obsession.

My Life Through the War (PDF), Bronislava Alland, My Life Through the War also contains information about Twin Cities child survivor George Alland.

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Last modified on October 22, 2009