In the year 2025, several commemorative days are due in Austria: Directly on January 1st, the 30th anniversary of the EU ...

He was actually liberated by the U.S. Army on May 5, 1945 from Mauthausen-Gusen I concentration camp. His liberation by the 11th Armored Division of the U.S. Army prompted him to join the U.S. Air ...

Door County’s Elmer Miller was in the 22nd Tank Battalion, 11th Armored Division, which arrived in the rugged Ardennes region ...

Another turbulent year in Austria is over. What will the next one bring? Will it be better? Politics, the economy, education, ...

“The inmates liberated by our forces were skeletons ... On May 5, 1945, the 11th Armored Division entered the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. By the end of the war, those camps in Central ...

Nachmia also passed through other camps, including Mauthausen and Gelenau, and was a forced laborer in a factory in Breslau (now Wroclaw). Only she and her older brother Michael survived out of their ...

had the same sound and effects “as the bombs that liberated us. It feels the same,” she said. Igra noted that “not all the (concentration) camps were death camps,” and she showed a record ...

The 11th would fight on into Germany and on May 5th, 1945, they liberated the Mauthausen concentration camp. “As a proud descendant of Wisconsin veterans going back to the Civil War,” said ...

For Forman, having Ebert’s story live on through the heartwarming book “means so much.” “To the world, she was this heroine, ...