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For several weeks in October 1943, Danish rescuers
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As a result of this national effort, more than 90 per-cent of the Jews in Denmark escaped deportation to Nazi concentration camps.
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This boat, now on display at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., was used by a group of rescuers code-named the “Helsingør Sewing Club.”
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In fall 1939, Jewish activists in Warsaw, around the historian Emanuel Ringelblum, established a secret archive to document Jewish life and death in the ghetto and the extreme conditions of German occupation.
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In 1942–1943, they buried these documents in metal containers, such as this milk can, to preserve a record of Nazi crimes for future generations. This milk can is on display at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
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This photo taken from the window of a private home shows prisoners being marched from one concentration camp to another. In response to the deteri-orating military situation in late 1944, German authorities ordered the evacuation of concentration camp prisoners away from advancing Allied troops to the interior of Germany.
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Evacuated by train, ship, or on foot, prisoners suffered from malnutrition, exhaustion, harsh weather, and mistreatment. SS guards followed strict orders to shoot prisoners who could no longer walk or travel.
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower and other high-ranking U.S. Army officers view the bodies of prisoners killed by German camp authorities during the evacuation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp.
