![World War I Begins](https://www.storiesofsurvival.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/1280px-Cheshire_Regiment_trench_Somme_1916-1024x782.jpg)
World War I began in 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918.
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![Buchenwald Concentration Camp Is Built In Germany](https://www.storiesofsurvival.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Buchenwald_Prisoners_Roll_Call_10105.jpg)
Buchenwald was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within Germany’s 1937 borders.
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Germans invade Bluma’s town of Pinczow. Bluma (age 13) and sister escape into nearby woods.
![Wannsee Conference](https://www.storiesofsurvival.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/1942-Wannsee-Conference.png)
High ranking Nazi officials meet at a villa in Berlin Germany. The Wannsee Conference is where Hitler’s Final Solution is first planned and set in motion.
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Felix Goldberg among Jews in Buchenwald liberated by US Troops.
CBS Newsman Edward R Murrow’s radio broadcast on the occasion of the liberation of Buchenwald.
![Congressmen See Horrors of Nazi Camp](https://www.storiesofsurvival.org/wp-content/uploads/1945/04/Buchenwald_The_State_April_23__1945_p1A-754x1024.jpg)
Associated Press published in The State (Columbia SC).
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Bluma (along with her sister) is liberated from Kaufering VI in Turkhein (subcamp to Dachau) camp by 12th Armored Division of US Army; transported to Holzhausen Hospital near Landsberg Germany.
This list was prepared by the World Jewish Congress.
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On May 14 1948, President Harry Truman becomes the first world leader to officially recognize Israel as a legitimate Jewish state , only eleven minutes after its creation.
![A Primer In Resettlement For Small Communities](https://www.storiesofsurvival.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/new-neighbors-1024x691.jpg)
In May 1949, New Neighbors, a USNA newsletter, featured an article, “A Primer in Resettlement for Small Communities,” which described Columbia SC efforts to welcome displaced persons.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE: A Primer In Resettlement For Small Communities
The Frankfurt-Auschwitz Trials were the trials of twenty-two Nazi personnel who served at the Auschwitz Camp Complex between 1940 and 1945. The trials primarily took place in Frankfurt am Main between 20 December 1963 and 20 August 1965.
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