Each letter in 'Liberators'
is cut from an actual photograph taken during liberation of camps. To view full
photos/text, click on the letters.
COMMENDATION TO LIBERATORS
To liberate means to free.
Liberators of concentration camps include not only the troops who broke
down the gates to the camps, but also support troops who followed immediately
afterward to provide medical care, food, clothing and loving-kindness.
They too were rescuers.
These liberators share the
bond of an uncanny experience, one that befell some of them briefly, some for a
few hours, others for several days, and still others
for weeks and months. They
bear witness for those who were treated to tortures humankind has yet
imagined. They offer that witness
to us so that their memories will live and have enduring meaning long after they
are gone, and ensure that an evil of this magnitude will never again be
permitted.
Learn more about
WWII liberators at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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Webmasters Terri Toppler (2005 USHMM Teacher Fellow)
and Caitlin Toppler (Senior at Central High School, 2006)
Contact:
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Dedication:
This website is dedicated to the Quad
City area WWII liberators who were honored
by The Quad City Yom HaShoah Committee.
Interviews and text © by Marrietta
Castle (Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Western Illinois University).
