I received this email while I was at the last liberator-survivor reunion.
March 27th, 2009.
“Dear Mr. Rozell,
My father was a medical officer with the 30th Infantry. It is astounding to me that I saw the article just now in the NY Times on line, and this week will be my father’s 20th Yahrzeit (anniversary of his [...]
Archive for April, 2009
The Last Battle-Major Julius Rock.
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Yom Hashoah.
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I was the guest speaker at a local temple this evening. It was a beautiful ceremony of remembrance, with music and song…. I may have been the only non-Jew there and I was the honored guest.
Honored guest!
I kept biting my lip and hoping I would not lose it, or cry, when it was my turn [...]
Holocaust Survivors Meet their Liberators, First Time Since 1945
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‘They were our angels’
Reunion sparks memories of Nazi prisoners’ train trip to freedom
By Schuyler Kropf, The Charleston Post and Courier
Saturday, March 28, 2009
They were teenaged G.I.s, happy that World War II was winding down and that they’d survived. But the story of what happened that April morning in 1945 still lingers.
It involved a train [...]
