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Module 6: Return to Life

 

Timeline

(1942-1945)


Survivors of Mauthausen cheer American soldiers as they pass through the main gate of the camp. The photograph was taken several days after the liberation of the camp. Mauthausen, Austria, May 9, 1945.


Mauthausen, Austria, May 1945

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Pauline M. Bower

Video

Liberation


Additional Resources

Effects and Aftermath of the Holocaust

SAN ANTONIO SURVIVOR CONNECTION: See Oscar Michal Ehrenberg (pp. 34-37), Margaret Turk Hopkovits (pp. 78-80) and David Scharff (p. 173)

Survivor accounts in Our Voices, Our Lives: Twenty Holocaust Survivors Remember, Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio, Becky Ebner Hoag, Grace Hoffman Mueller, Roxann Patrick, and Jeanette Pierce.

See photographs of on the back wall in the survival section of the museum local gallery.