Moments of liberation from Nazi domination were often joyful, but many experiences were more complex. Liberation did not necessarily mean personal freedom, and it often meant confronting great personal losses as people learned of the deaths of family and friends. Many people also faced new uncertainties as the war came to an end.
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American Christians, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust
Americans and the HolocaustBishop G. Bromley Oxnam at Buchenwald
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Objects of Memory
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustCamp Prisoner Uniform Jacket Worn by William Luksenburg
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Wartime Jewish Press
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDavid Zaslavsky, "A New Page in World History"
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Elvira Kohn
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Saartje Wijnberg
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American Witnesses and the Third Reich
Americans and the HolocaustEdward R. Murrow Broadcast from Buchenwald, April 15, 1945
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustEichmann Trial Testimony of Abba Kovner
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American Witnesses and the Third Reich
Americans and the HolocaustFilm of General Dwight D. Eisenhower Visiting the Ohrdruf Camp
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Artists and Visual Culture in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustImages from the Liberation of Majdanek and Auschwitz
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The Holocaust in Yugoslavia
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Ester Ruben Menahem to the Commissariat for Jewish Questions
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Isaak Shmaruk to Sulamif Tsybulnik
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Jakub Birnbaum to Róża Szczegowska
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustMoyshe Feygnboym: "Why Historical Commissions?"
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The Holocaust and the Moving Image
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustNorman Krasna, "Lest We Forget"
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Black Americans and World War II
Americans and the HolocaustOral History with Leon Bass
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American Witnesses and the Third Reich
Americans and the HolocaustPhotograph of Margaret Bourke-White at Buchenwald
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The Holocaust in Yugoslavia
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustReport of the Communist Party Committee in the Jewish Camp at Rab
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Objects of Memory
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustSilver Cup Made in a Labor Camp
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustUSC Shoah Foundation Oral History with Michael Kraus