Jewish Sonderkommando prisoners revolt at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Soviet troops entered Majdanek as German forces retreated. The camp’s surviving prisoners and physical evidence, including gas chambers and crematoria, challenged German efforts to conceal mass...

A coup led by King Michael removed Marshal Ion Antonescu, and Romania switched sides. Romanian forces then fought alongside the Soviet Union. The change followed Romanian state mass murder and...

German troops invaded Slovakia after an armed revolt began against the Tiso government. Slovak resistance groups sought to overthrow the collaborationist regime, drive out German forces, and restore a...

Following Germany’s invasion, German and Slovak authorities resumed deportations of Slovak Jews. The renewed round included people who had survived earlier deportations, people in hiding, and...

The first transport of Slovak Jews from Sered’ arrived at Theresienstadt after Germany reoccupied Slovakia and suppressed the uprising. Theresienstadt served as a transit and concentration site;...

As Soviet forces advanced, SS guards forced tens of thousands of prisoners westward in winter conditions. Many died from exposure, exhaustion, starvation, or execution. The evacuations continued...

SS forces began a death march from Stutthof and its subcamps toward the west. Thousands of prisoners died during evacuations by land and sea. Jewish prisoners were among those subjected to the...

Soviet troops entered the Auschwitz camp complex and found about 7,000 surviving prisoners, many gravely ill. The SS had forced most prisoners on death marches westward; liberation exposed the scale...

US troops liberated Ohrdruf, a Buchenwald subcamp, and encountered evidence of mass death and prisoners murdered shortly before liberation. The visit by senior Allied officers helped bring public...

American forces reached Buchenwald after prisoners had organized resistance and taken control of parts of the camp. Liberation exposed mass death and extreme abuse; prisoners were not all...