liberation

1. The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
2. The act or process of trying to achieve equal rights and status.

noun

The state of not being in confinement or servitude: emancipation, freedom, liberty, manumission. See free/unfree.

Definition: freedom, equality
Antonyms: oppression

n

Definition: freeing
Antonyms: confinement, slavery, subjugation

As the Allies retook control of lands that had been occupied by the Germans, Jews in hiding suddenly found themselves free. The Allies also came across many Nazi camps. In some instances, the Nazis had tried to destroy all evidence of the camps, in order to conceal from the world what had happened there. In other cases, only the buildings remained, as the Nazis had sent the prisoners elsewhere, often on Death Marches. However, in many camps the Allied soldiers found hundreds or even thousands of emaciated Survivors living in the most horrific of conditions, many of whom were dying of malnourishment and disease.

The liberation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps began in Eastern Europe when Soviet troops reached Majdanek in July 1944. Soon they found many other camp sites, some of which were camouflaged from the outside. Oftentimes the Soviet authorities did not reveal their findings to the rest of the world. The British and American troops who were approaching from the West did not reach the concentration camps of Germany until the spring of 1945. What they found was unspeakable---tens of thousands on the verge of death, as well as piles upon piles of corpses. The Allied liberators tried very hard to help the survivors, but many died anyway in the weeks after liberation.

After the war's end, most of the non-Jewish survivors returned to their homes. However, for the Jews, liberation was a mixed blessing. On the one hand, they were now free from Nazi tyranny, free to move on. On the other hand, many of them had nowhere to go and no compelling reason to leave---often, these Jews were the only survivors from their entire families, sometimes from their entire community. Many had no homes left; others began to search desperately for any remnant of family or friends. Many of the Jews ended up in Displaced Persons (DP) camps, sometimes in the company of their former persecutors. Over the next few years the DPs rebuilt their lost lives, usually moving to a place where they had located a relative or friend. Many of the Jews eventually moved to Israel. (see also Displaced Persons, Jewish.)

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Contents 1 Religion 2 Publications 3 Books 4 Music 4.1 Albums 4.2 Songs 4.3 Record labels 5 Computer and software related 6 See also

Liberation, Libération or Liberate may refer to:

• Liberty, the condition in which an individual has the ability to act according to his or her own will.

• Liberation, the freeing of a place from a tyrannic regime, e.g.: Liberation of Paris, Liberation of Auschwitz.

Religion

• Moksha
• Nirvana Buddhism
• Enlightenment, the acquisition of new wisdom or understanding enabling clarity of perception
• Liberation theology, a school of theology within the Catholic Church
• Moksa Jainism

Publications

• Libération, a French newspaper
• Libération (Morocco), a Moroccan francophone newspaper
• Oslobođenje, a Bosnian newspaper
• Liberation (magazine), (1956-1977) The monthly pacifist magazine "Liberation" was founded, published, and edited by A.J. Muste and David Dellinger

Books

• Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America, a science-fiction novel by Brian Francis Slattery

Music

Albums

• Libération (album), an album by the electronic music band Les Rythmes Digitales
• Liberation (1349 album)
• Liberation (Bunny Wailer album)
• Liberation (The Divine Comedy album)
• An 2003 album by Karsh Kale
• Liberation (Mýa album)
• Liberation (Talib Kweli and Madlib album)

Songs

• "Liberation" (song), a 1994 single released by UK electronic music group, Pet Shop Boys.
• A song by Mike Oldfield on his album The Millennium Bell
• A song by Outkast featuring Cee-Lo on their album Aquemini
• A instrumental song by Earth, Wind & Fire on their album Illumination
• Liberate (song), by Disturbed
• Liberate (Slipknot song), a song by American nu metal band Slipknot
• "Liberate" (Superheist song)
• "Liberate", a song by Remy Shand, from his album The Way I Feel
• Between You, Me & Liberation by Common on his fifth studio album Electric Circus
• "Liberation Day" by Ferras on his debut Album Aliens & Rainbows
• "Liberation", a song by Katatonia from the album "Night Is the New Day", fifth track.

Record labels

• Liberation Records, an American record label
• Liberation Music, an Australian record label

Computer and software related

• Liberation fonts, collective name of three TrueType font families: Liberation Sans, Liberation Serif and Liberation Mono.
• Liberation: Captive 2, a computer game for the Amiga CD32
• Killzone: Liberation, the PlayStation Portable sequel to the PlayStation 2 game Killzone

See also

• Revolution (disambiguation)
• Emancipation
• Libration

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