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September 15, 2007
WWII Tank Vet Reunites with Holocaust Survivors
On Friday, the now 86-year-old retired state Supreme Court judge reunited with three of the survivors of the Nazi death train his unit found near Magdeburg, about 50 miles southwest of Berlin. The train was on its way to another concentration camp.[...]
The reunion has its roots in a class project launched by Matthew Rozell, a history teacher at Hudson Falls High School. In the early 1990s, he created an elective course for seniors to collect stories from local veterans and post them on a Web site.
One of Rozell's students was Walsh's grandson, who told the teacher about his grandfather's wartime service. Several years ago, Rozell interviewed Walsh and George Gross, a fellow tank commander from Spring Valley, Calif.
Their account of the train liberation was posted on the project's Web site, along with black-and-white photographs taken that day by the major leading their patrol.
That's where some of the child survivors of the Nazi train, now in their 60s and 70s, found their story.
Learn about: A Train Near Magdeburg
Main Link: The World War Two Living History Project (WW2LHP)
(via yahoo news)
Posted by Groonk at September 15, 2007 08:29 AM | Ministry of History, WorldWarII
