The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath

A moving, deeply researched account of survivors’ experiences of liberation from Nazi death camps and the long, difficult years that followed

When tortured inmates of Hitler’s concentration and extermination camps were liberated in 1944 and 1945, the horror of the atrocities came fully to light. It was easy for others to imagine the joyful relief of freed prisoners, yet for those who had survived the unimaginable, the experience of liberation was a slow, grueling journey back to life. In t...