Sentences with phrase «war camp used»

Eight miles south of Pickering, Eden Camp is an authentic World War II prisoner of war camp used to detain Italian and German soldiers captured by the Allies on the battlefields of Europe.

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Last week, Spicer falsely claimed Hitler did not use chemical weapons during World War II and referred to concentration camps as «concentration centers.»

When America reluctantly enterered the war, they focused on stopping Hitler but did not target any of the routes being used to ship jews to any of the camps or anything that would necessarily stop it from happening.

On March 26, a group of New York — based lawyers headed by Edward D. Fagan, who spearheaded successful suits on behalf of Holocaust survivors against European firms that collaborated with the Nazis in using concentration camp inmates as laborers, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against FleetBoston Financial, the insurance giant Aetna, and railroad conglomerate CSX Corporation, on the grounds that these corporations are the successors of companies that profited from slavery before the Civil War.

It is not the war itself, and in fact, many of the skills and behaviors learned at boot camp (or seminary) will never be used in war (and in fact, may be a hindrance).

Tomooka recalls driving in the winning runs for Guadalupe in a game against a visiting internment camp team from Heart Mountain, Wyo. «My dad used to talk about that game for years after the war,» Tomooka says.

By the war's end, Schindler had used most of his fortune just keeping his workers out of the camps, out of the ovens and furnaces, and alive to tell their stories.

Voice Vision: Holocaust Survivor Oral Histories This University of Michigan site uses Adobe Acrobat and RealPlayer technologies to present about a dozen firsthand accounts of life in the concentration camps during the Second World War.

These dogs played great and heroic roles during the First World War when they were used to look for wounded soldiers, relay messages between camps and far - away bases and even pull objects like carts and wagons.

Historically, these dogs were used to protect the camps of the U.S soldiers during the world wars.

Renditions of its limestone surface are slapped onto buildings, and it shares a name with a Japanese internment camp, which used its lowlands to house over 11,000 detained Japanese Americans during World War II.

During World War II, it was used as a concentration camp and suffered heavy damage from bombings at the end of the War.

Along the way, you'll visit cities, concentration camps, and places important during World War II — with overnights in Warsaw, Krakow, Wroclaw, Dresden, Berlin, Weimar, Nuremberg, and Munich.Throughout this tour, you'll visit some of the concentration camps used during World War II.

During the Boer War, hydrogen gas balloons were used as observation points for the army for locating enemy camps and monitoring their enemy movements.

Since the end of World War II, there has been debate over the terminology used to refer to Manzanar, and the other camps in which Americans of Japanese ancestry and their immigrant parents, were incarcerated by the United States Government during the wWar II, there has been debate over the terminology used to refer to Manzanar, and the other camps in which Americans of Japanese ancestry and their immigrant parents, were incarcerated by the United States Government during the warwar.

For a time, during the second world war, the Gili islands were used by Japanese forces as a look out post and also a prisoner of war camp.

It was used by the army to guard Prisoner of War camps, but proved very popular with the underground Militia forces throughout France and Belgium.

Photographer Brian Griffin's Himmelstrasse series offers a moving portrait of the Polish railway tracks used to transport prisoners to Nazi extermination camps during World War Two.

His later work at times used symbolic shapes which more directly evoked his Nisei heritage and the years he spent in detention camps with his family during World War II.

Julian Stanczak (born 1928) was training to be a musician in Poland when he lost the use of his right arm in a Siberian labor camp during World War II.

The Holocaust Museum Houston's expansion project that will double its size began officially Monday with the relocation of two of their most valuable historical artifacts, the rescue boat «Hanne Frank» and a World War II - era railcar of the type used by Nazis to transport their victims to concentration camps.