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U.S. Liberation

of the Concentration Camps. Instructed by Robert Holden

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Two documentaries will be shown and discussed with the group:

Memory of the Camps (British, produced by Sidney Bernstein, co-directed by Alfred Hitchcock and narrated by Trevor Howard) and The Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps (Actual films taken by U.S. Servicemen as they approached and liberated concentration camps in Germany; including, Dachau, Ordruf, and Buchenwald. There will also be an examination of the testimonies of men (and women!) who were there at the Liberation.

The British liberated Bergen Belsen and a few other nearby concentration camps, the Canadians liberated the transit camp of WesterBork (Where Anne Frank was kept before her transfer to Bergen-Belsen), the Russians liberated first, Mauthausen, Belzec, and Treblinka, and then Auschwitz, while the Americans liberated Buchenwald, Ordruf and Dachau (the very first concentration camp!)

There will also be discussion about why some historians do NOT consider the word Liberation to be suitable.

Mr. Robert Holden is a retired Ocean City Gifted/talented teacher (ret.-2006) and retired Senior Adjunct Professor of History, teaching WC 1, WC 2, and his own created Holocaust and Genocide Studies Course at ACCC’s Cape May County campus. (ret. -2016)

He is on the board of the SJHC, the HPSUT and the Seaville Friends Meeting.

He has published several secondary history curriculum guides and two books, Upper Township and its Ten Villages and Visas to Shanghai, both of which are available to check out from the library.

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