Includes bibliographical references and index. ix, 244 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Railroad. Entrance to bunkers. Piles of ammunition near Leipzig (wired to blow all the ammunition when captured by the Americans). Sign: "Munitionsabhol = kommandos hier melden." CU of German eagle with swastika. Tanks. Liberated Russian POWs waving at camera. German POWs guarded by US soldiers. Repatriated English soldiers. French refugees walking down road. German prisoners enter POW cage, march ...

Marika Rotter (née Szuecs) was born in Gyor Hungary in 1915, and later studied Art in Vienna. She went on to work in fashion design, including running her own business making belts and accessories. Her first husband was Ernst Lӧw-Beer, a Czech industrialist from Brno, with whom she escaped to England and divorced soon after. Her parents remained in Hungary- her mother was sent to Auschwitz and murdered ...

Steven Vogel is a survivor of Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps. Eva Cooper (born Eva Brust) is the daughter of Elek Brust (b. 1899) and Livia (Lilly) Schwarcz Brust. Eva was born on March 18, 1934 in Budapest, Hungary where her father owned a wholesale paper box company. The family attended the Dohány Street Synagogue. After voyaging to America to attend the 1939 World’s Fair in New York, ...