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Photograph from the Col. Robert Seibel Collection, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.

Cheering survivors greet American troops as they enter the Mauthausen concentration camp a day after the actual liberation. According to P. Serge Choumoff, an historian and survivor of Mauthausen, this event was a recreation of the liberation done at the request of General Eisenhower. (May 6, 1945)

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