Surviver's and Liberators by Johna Fenner

What is a Liberators thought?

2136387 — 2017-04-17 14:42:30 UTC

*Thoughts that had come from a liberator was things such as German heritage and family.
* Many liberators thought what it'd be like to be born as a German citizen.
*One quote from a liberator was "I hoped that I would not have been like most of the Germans I had seen"

What are displaced people?

2136387 — 2017-04-17 14:45:42 UTC

*At close of war there
were many refugees in German territory who had been removed from their homelands and brought to Germany by Nazi German. These people became known as displaced persons or DP.Major camps for displaced Jews

How many DP's were there?

2136387 — 2017-04-17 14:47:51 UTC

*6 million people had returned to their native countries in the aftermath; however, between 1.5 and 2 million refused to do so.

How many displaced people in camps?

2136387 — 2017-04-17 14:51:30 UTC

250,000 Jews in DP camps by 1946
In Germany:185,000
In Austria: 45,000
In Italy:20,000

Who is Dennis Urstein?

2136387 — 2017-04-17 14:53:17 UTC

*Dennis went to public school and remembered being made fun of for being Jewish.
*Right as soon as German troops arrived Dennis was arrested and sent to Buchenwald.
*When Dennis got released in Nov. 1938, the family decided to leave Austria.
*In 1941, Dennis got arrested again for not wearing the required "yellow badge"
*On April 22, 1943 Dennis witnessed his parents arrival at the gas chambers.

Who is Henry Mikos?

2136387 — 2017-04-17 14:56:49 UTC

* Henry was born in Poznan, Poland, his family was Roman Catholic.
*Henry first noticed life change in August 1939, his father and Henry went to watch polish planes performing; however, when the planes started to bomb the air fields, Henry's father realized they were Germans attacking.
*German invaded Poznan on Sep. 8th, within a few months his family was evicted from their home because they believed they were Jewish.

A liberators letter home May 2, 1945

2136387 — 2017-04-17 15:01:56 UTC

"Today I am sitting in Hitlers luxuriously furnished apartment in Muich writing a few lines home"
"I still find it hard to believe what my eyes told me"
"I had to kill or else it was me"
"box car held about 30 humans suitable for 200, held 1500"
"160000 persons were originally in the camps 32000 were alive (or almost alive)
"How could people do things like that? I never believed they could until now

A poem "When it happened

2136387 — 2017-04-17 15:08:57 UTC

"I did not hear you cry out"
'Go back you're not permitted to cross
'You are under arrest they barked'
"Did you know what it meant?Did you believe the rumors?Were you silent?Stunned? Angry?

What are some things liberators had to face?

2136387 — 2017-04-17 15:11:40 UTC

*"There were about a dozen bodies in the dirty box car"
*"They had gone without food for so long that their dead wrists were broomsticks tipped with claws."

Who is Josef Clein?

2136387 — 2017-04-18 15:08:25 UTC

*"Josef Clein was only 15 when he went ti a brief concentration camp, he then exchanged which allowed him to survive while 2 of this sisters and mother were sent to gas chambers.

Where were the DP's sent?

2136387 — 2017-04-18 15:10:00 UTC

*Special DP camps were set up to provide shelter and food for displaced persons. Initially conditions in these camps were deplorable, with Jews occasionally being forced to love alongside those who had recently prosecuted them.