Red Cross Visits Nazi Concentration Camp

Published: July 2, 2015, 8:06 a.m.

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)