When were the Jews set free?

Answer 1

By the time the Allies reached the extermination and concentration camps there weren't that many inmates, Jewish or non-jewish, left to free. Obviously, the Allies freed those that were still alive. They need medical care first, though, and the killer diseases didn't simply disappear. In the case of the typhus epidemic at Bergen-Belsen, for example, a further 13,000 inmates died after liberation.

Answer 2

The Allied soldiers freed the Jews by first giving out food. They soon learned that not too much food could be given, for their bodies were not used to rich foods.

Camps like Bergen-Belsen were changed into DP Camps: Displaced Persons camps. The Allies tried to reunite families, although in many cases this was not possible.

Answer 3

During WWII, the Jews were free when the Allies walked into the gates of the camps. The Jews not in concentration camps were free when the Allies came into their country.

Answer 4

The USSR Liberated Auschwitz on January 1945.

Answer 5

In Germany 1945.