He was released from another concentration camp in May 1945 and returned to Poland.
He also recounted his own visits to the Buchenwald concentration camp as president, and to Israel, before he was elected.
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist was arrested and sent to a concentration camp, but was later allowed to return to combat duty.
Csizsik-Csatary participated in the deportation of 15, 700 Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, witnesses have told the center.
He will travel to Buchenwald, the concentration camp his great uncle helped liberate, a visit that makes personal and historical sense.
As a young woman, travelling through post-war Europe to help rebuild clinics, she had visited the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland.
During World War II Mr Hartmann worked as a member of the SS Death's Head Guard Battalion at Germany's Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
Anne Frank died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, aged 15.
He remembers coming across the Dachau concentration camp unexpectedly in southern Germany.
Her philosophy originated during World War II through her experiences as a prisoner of war in a Japanese concentration camp in Indonesia.
He spent time at a work camp near Auschwitz in Poland and soon learned of the horrors at the Nazi concentration camp nearby.
Museum officials at the former Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland have restored the metal entrance sign damaged in a theft 17 months ago.
Schacter served as an Army chaplain during World War II and was able to participate in the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp.
The launch coincided with the arrest last Thursday of Dinko Sakic, sought for alleged war crimes as the head of a concentration camp.
The house has been turned into a museum dedicated to the young girl, who died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 aged 15.
He talks about his great-uncle's service in World War II, as a member of the infantry division that first liberated a Nazi concentration camp.
Obama will follow his visit to Egypt with a trip to the remains of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany on June 5.
The last time Avital and Lewis were near each other was on the grounds of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, nearly 70 years ago.
Mr Ganzfried's juxtapositions of life in the shtetl, the ghetto and the concentration camp with the ethnic tensions of modern New York are as effective.
Laszlo Csizsik-Csatary is accused of sending more than 15, 000 Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp in the spring of 1944, the Simon Wiesenthal Center said.
In thick black pen, Spiegelman drew his Jewish parents as mice in a concentration camp where the Germans were cats and the Poles were pigs.
Arrested in 1936, Sally, a Russian-born Jew, is sent to Mauthausen concentration camp, in Germany, where he survives for five years by painting Nazi kitsch.
Last February I led a historic visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp with more than 150 political and religious leaders, mostly from Arab and Muslim countries.
Mr Kalejs is also alleged to have worked as a guard at the Salaspils concentration camp near the Latvian capital, Riga, where other murders were committed.
The play will be performed at Leeds Town Hall on Sunday to mark the 68th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.
BBC: Holocaust Memorial Day in Leeds marked by teenagers' play
One of my parents' closest friends spent the war first in the Lodz ghetto in occupied Poland, then survived a concentration camp by lying about his age.
Von Kleist himself was arrested, questioned at length by the Gestapo, and sent to a concentration camp, but then inexplicably let go and returned to combat duty.
It is based on a former miner who was one of the first Allied soldiers to enter Belsen concentration camp on its liberation in World War II.
His parents were later captured by the French Milice (French Militia) and handed over to the Gestapo, and then transported to the concentration camp at Auschwitz where they died.
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