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January 27, 1945

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NutmegCT

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The liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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We remember.
 
Thanks Mike.
 
mikephillips said:
Yes. One of my oldest friends lost family in the camps before they came here.

Here this has a link to the film Eisenhower ordered be made when he witnessed the camps.
en.wikipedia.org

Nazi Concentration Camps (film) - Wikipedia

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The 45th Infantry Museum in Oklahoma City sells copies of that film. The 45th liberated Dachau. A lot of us Okies have family that were with the 45th, and things like Dachau we learned about in school because they wouldn't speak of them.
 
Thanks Walt.

The first Jewish service in Germany since AH took over. October 29, 1944, broadcast around the world.


Shema Yisrael
 
I was 7 then and remember it was on every news (Radio) station. We got our first TV in 1948 or 1949, not sure.
 
Should be required viewing at some point during school when growing up. We're far enough past it that they don't have much chance of a grandparent who was around or there during the end to ensure they know it was real and not some made up story like many want to believe these days.
 
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"Survivors of Bergen-Belsen walk along the main street of the camp, past a pile of victims' shoes."

Survivors of Bergen-Belsen

Holocaust photograph: Survivors of Bergen-Belsen walk along the main street of the camp, past a pile of victims' shoes.
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My father's first real girlfriend was sent to Auschwitz
 
My grandparents escaped the nazi’s. Back in his home country my grandfather was a blacksmith. When he arrived in NYC since there wasn’t a need for a blacksmith, he became a window washer washing windows on skyscrapers.
 
Elliot - do you know the story of the MS St Louis just prior to WW2?
 
NutmegCT said:
Elliot - do you know the story of the MS St Louis just prior to WW2?
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Do you know who Philip Schlamberg was?
 
No - I'm not familiar with the name at all.
 
waltesefalcon said:
The 45th Infantry Museum in Oklahoma City sells copies of that film. The 45th liberated Dachau. A lot of us Okies have family that were with the 45th, and things like Dachau we learned about in school because they wouldn't speak of them.
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When I was about 12 or 13 Dad was stationed in peacetime Germany (he was in WWII, then had a 16 year break in service and re-enlisted to finish 20). One summer he took us on sort of a history tour. One of the places he took us was Dachau. I'll never forget that experience. Even at that young age, it really impacted me. He also took us to see Ann Frank's house in Amsterdam as well as Normandy and the American cemetery in Luxembourg (Where Patton is buried).
 
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