Often we are taught about the well known parts of Holocaust history but you don't hear stories from lesser known camps. In May 1945, Gusen Concentration Camp, a camp with at least 35,000 victims was liberated. See more info here: https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/this-month/may/1945-2.html
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Britain's policy of internment came into force in May 1940. British authorities interned 1000 children from the Kindertransport as enemy aliens. They were held in internment camps on the Isle of Man, Canada and Australia.
Individual stories from the Holocaust are often the most powerful. Click on the link below to see powerful photographs and learn the story of Tova Mendel being deported from their home on this day in 1945.
https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/this-month/may/1942-2.html The Fascist Croatian Regime called the Ustasha began the mass deportation of Roma, Serbs and Jews to the Jasenovac Concentration Camp - 83,145 victims can be identified by name.
Odak and Bencic, "Jasenovac- A Past that Does not Pass: The Presence of Jasenovac in Croatian and Serbian Collective Memory of Conflict." East European Politics and Societies 30, no. 4 (2016) p.808. The Jasenovac Genocide has been distorted and negotiated and its memory tarnished as the Croatian government erected a plaque with the Ustasha slogan "Za dom Spremni" meaning "homeland ready" at the sight of the Jasenovac camp. https://www.timesofisrael.com/croatias-serbian-jewish-groups-to-snub-wwii-death-camp-memorial/ The steam ship St Louis sets off from Hamburg to Cuba and the US with 900 Jews fleeing Nazi persecution. The refugees are rejected from both Cuba and the US and is forced to return to Europe. The St Louis docked in Antwerp, Belgium and the governments of the Netherlands, Belgium, France and the UK agreed to take in the refugees. https://www.ushmm.org/learn/timeline-of-events/1939-1941/st-louis-voyage
The German forces began surrendering the Channel Islands on 9 May 1945, as Nazi Germany had been defeated. https://www.hmd.org.uk/resource/30-june-1940-nazi-occupation-of-the-channel-islands-begins/
Britain’s policy of internment came into force in May 1940. British authorities interned 1,000 children from the Kindertransport as enemy aliens. They were held in internment camps on the Isle of Man, Canada, and Australia. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/kindertransport-1938-40 https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/kindertransport/
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