Liberation
In the second week of April 1945, the SS guards disappeared from the camp. On Saturday, 14 April, Salzwedel was liberated by the American army. Hart-Moxon and her mother began working as translators for the British Army. Later, the two moved to help with the Quaker Relief Team, outside Braunschweigrunswick.
Hart-Moxon and her mother tried to locate their family members soon after they were liberated, but found that everyone else had been killed: her father had been discovered by the Gestapo and shot; her brother was killed in battle; and her grandmother was taken to Belzec concentration camp and died in the gas chambers.
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