Cheering Survivors

Cheering survivors greet American troops as they enter the Mauthausen concentration camp a day after the actual liberation. According to P. Serge Choumoff, an historian and survivor of Mauthausen, this event was a recreation of the liberation done at the request of General Eisenhower.
Photo credit: USHMM

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
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