Liberation
The train stopped at Theresienstadt concentration camp, where they were ordered into a new set of barracks shortly before the Soviet Red Army arrived and liberated the inmates. Despite the now available food, water and basic medical care, many of the freed prisoners died in the days after due to the lasting effects of malnutrition and maltreatment and a typhoid fever epidemic. Shortly after the liberation, Frankenthal found his aunt in Theresienstadt, who had survived a Ghetto because of her status as Halbjüdin (Half-Jew). He and his brother then organised their return to Schmallenberg through the Displaced Persons Program.
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