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Hans Hüttig

Hans Hüttig saw an opportunity in the SS to catch up on his failed military career. The Concentration Camps became his w...

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Kurt Prüfer

Kurt Prüfer worked as an engineer at the company J. A. Topf & Sons in Erfurt. He made the development of corpse incinera...

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Magda Perlstein (Brown)

On her 17th birthday, Magda Perlstein was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. She survived the selection. The SS took her to...

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Maurice Pertschuk

As a British secret agent, Maurice Pertschuk organized resistance groups in German-occupied France. A few days before th...

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Mikhail Vasilevich Levshenkov

In 1940, at the age of 26, Mikhail Levschenkov was conscripted into the Red Army for military service. As a Soviet priso...

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Rudolph Boehmer

Rudolf Böhmer was 15 years old when he was deported to Auschwitz in May 1944. The Criminal Investigation Department had ...

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Joost van de Mortel

When Joost van de Mortel was called up for the Arbeitseinsatz in 1942, he did not consider working for the German occupi...

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Willem Jooren

As a station officer in Vught, Willem Jooren saw more and more trains full of prisoners arriving at the small local stat...

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Tineke Wibaut-Guilonard

Resistance member Tineke Guilonard lived through one of the darkest pages in the history of Camp Vught. After the war, s...

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Selma van de Perre-Velleman

Jewish Selma van de Perre-Velleman was imprisoned in Camp Vught under her pseudonym Marga van der Kuit for her resistanc...

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Rudolph Cleveringa

When the Dutch public broadcasting organisation held a vote for the ‘Best speech of the Netherlands’ in 2015, Rudolph Cl...

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Roosje Mozes

Roosje Mozes was a Jewish girl who loved parties, especially her own birthday, enjoyed swimming in the lake the IJzeren ...

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Suze Arts

In the summer of 1943, Suze Arts, a young unmarried mother, got a job as an SS Aufseherin (female guard) at Camp Vught. ...

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Sher Bahadur Thapa

Les Gurkha népalais sont un corps d'élite de l'armée britannique et sont particulièrement connus pour leur bravoure et l...

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Don Antonio Marcaccini

Prêtre partisan, il fut un activiste de la résistance dans le Val Conca, au point que son presbytère dans l'église de Fa...

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Eric De Lautour

Eric De Lautour, originaire de Nouvelle-Zélande, a été soldat dans le 25e bataillon lors de la campagne d'Afrique du Nor...

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Kurt Rosenberg

Kurt Rosenberg, né en Pologne et de religion juive, était soldat dans le deuxième corps d'armée polonais qui combattait ...

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Total war in Monsummano Terme: the German occupation, the Shoah, the Massacre of the Fucecchio Marshes

The war deeply affected the town of Monsummano Terme between 1943 and 1944 with a series of events: the German occupatio...

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Castelnuovo di Garfagnana and its population between internment, Nazi and fascist massacres, bombings, Liberation

WWII deeply affected Castelnuovo di Garfagnana and its population, which suffered massacre episodes, Allied bombardment ...

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Operation Wintergewitter

Operation Wintergewitter was one of the last military campaigns carried out by the Wehrmacht and the National Republican...

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Manrico Ducceschi

Manrico Ducceschi was an Italian partisan in command of the 'National Liberation Army - XI Military Patriots Zone', whic...

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Fulvio Zamponi

Fulvio Zamponi was an antifascist and communist from Monsumano. Registered by the fascists in the Casellario Politico Ce...

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Gino Lombardi

Gino Lombardi was Versilia's first and most famous partisan. He came from an anti-fascist family, was an expert in the u...

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Valoris Poli

Valoris Poli was a young Pistoiese sentenced to death by the fascists for renunciation of conscription and shot on 31 Ma...

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