LibGuides: Primary Sources: The Holocaust: Liberation

Online Sources: Liberation

Hell Before Their Very Eyes: American Soldiers Liberate Concentration Camps in Germany, April 1945 by John C. McManus
Call Number: D805.G3 M4297 2015
ISBN: 9781421417646
The Holocaust: Selected Documents in Eighteen Volumes by John Mendelsoh
Call Number: D804.3 .H6496 2010
ISBN: 1616190000
Holocaust: The Liberation of Auschwitz by Irmgard von zur Mühlen
Call Number: Media D805.5.A96 H65 2005 DVD
ISBN: 881482301393
"... contains all the film footage of Auschwitz which was filmed ... between January 27th & February 28th 1945 ..."
Liberation: Stories of Survival from the Holocaust by Betty N. Hoffman
Call Number: D804.195 .H64 2012
ISBN: 9780766033191
"Discusses the liberation of Europe and the aftermath of the Holocaust, including the displaced persons camps, primary source accounts from Holocaust survivors, and how those survivors started new lives in new countries"--Provided by publisher.
The Liberators : America's Witnesses to the Holocaust by Michael Hirsh
Call Number: D805.G3 H523 2010
ISBN: 0553807560
At last, the everyday fighting men who were the first Americans to know the full and horrifying truth about the Holocaust share their astonishing stories. Here we meet the brave souls who--now in their eighties and nineties--have chosen at last to share their stories.

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