Liberation of concentration camp prisoners

April 11 – International Day for the Liberation of Prisoners of Nazi Concentration Camps This date was not set by chance: it was on April 11, 1945, that the international uprising of prisoners of the largest Buchenwald death camp, founded in 1937, took place. During the years of World War II, more than 20 million people from 30 countries of the world passed through concentration camps. The first death camp began operating in 1933 in […]