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Red Cross Visits Nazi Concentration Camp

In 1944 the International Red Cross was allowed by the Nazis to visit the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Hear from Ela Weissberger, who was an 11-year-old Jewish prisoner.

In June 1944 the International Red Cross was allowed by the Nazis into the Theresienstadt concentration camp. The Nazis tried to use the visit to project a positive image of their treatment of the Jews. Hear from Ela Weissberger, who was an 11-year-old prisoner in the camp.

(Audio archive courtesy of The National Centre for Jewish Film at Brandeis University)

(Photo: Children in Theresienstadt, taken by International Red Cross delegates, June 1944; ICRC archives (ARR)/ Rossel, Maurice)

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