Former Nazi concentration camp survivor observes moment of silence at commemoration ceremonies for 74th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald.

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taterhotdish on April 12nd, 2019 at 03:35 UTC »

I visited Buchenwald back in 1991 and I swear you could still smell the atrocities. I'm curious if that's changed.

SurfeitJazz on April 12nd, 2019 at 03:40 UTC »

Former survivor? That isn't how the word "former" works.

gavers on April 12nd, 2019 at 07:10 UTC »

My great-grandfather was taken to Buchenwald in 1938 for a month, then the entire family fled to Holland only have the Nazis invade and send them to Bergen-Belsen.

They were then put on one of the "Lost Transports" as the allies were closing in. The train fortunately never made it to Auwshwitz and they were liberated by Soviet soldiers in a tiny village in Eastern Germany (Tröbitz).

My grandmother and her entire immediate family survived the Holocaust, but her father died 6 weeks after they were liberated from typhus.