1981 International Liberators Conference collection of liberator testimonies testimonies.

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1981 International Liberators Conference collection of liberator testimonies testimonies.

Consists of brief liberator testimonies written in 1981 by US armed forces veterans. The testimonies describe liberation experiences at several concentration camps. Also included are letters from Miles Lerman and Elie Wiesel to the liberators describing the International Liberators Conference.

1 ft., 3 in. boxes.

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Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016

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Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania. He was 15 years old when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. His mother and younger sister perished, his two older sisters survived. Elie and his father were later transported to Buchenwald, where his father died shortly before the camp was liberated in April 1945. After the war, Elie Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a journalist. He wrote his memoir La Nuit or Night. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter appointed El...

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