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...article, Jeffrey Goldberg, the New York bureau chief of The forward, a weekly Yiddish newspaper, cites the commanders of the 761 st Infantry Division and the 183rd Combat Engineer Battalion as saying their units were nowhere near Dachau and Buchenwald, camps which the filmmakers say the Black units helped liberate...
...United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in a statement issued last fall, says there is certainly evidence that Black soldiers fought heroically at the Battle of the Bulge and were liberators in Euchenwald, Gunskirchen, and Dora-Mittelbau concentration camps, but that their direct involvement at Buchenwald or Dachau could not be confirmed or denied...
...staying in Genoa after its occupation by German troops to minister to the city's large Jewish refugee population; he was one of some 7,000 Italian Jews to die in concentration camps. Carlo Schonheit, a cantor from Ferrara, and his son Franco were among the handful who survived Buchenwald, the horrors of which Alexander Stille describes with chilling understatement. Pietro Cardinal Boetto, the frail Archbishop of Genoa, unhesitatingly agreed to carry on the work of a Jewish relief organization after it was forced to disband. "They are innocents," he told his secretary. "We must help them at whatever cost...
...form a minority of the 28,000 who make the Federal Republic their home. One of them is Alfred Moses, 70, a semi- retired West Berlin watchmaker who left Europe for Israel in late 1948 after living through the horror of the concentration camps of Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Finding life in the Middle East intolerable, he and his wife Inge returned to Germany in 1954. In Berlin the couple's friends are all Christians. Says Inge: "We do not go to synagogue, and there are few Jews, if any, in our neighborhood." She adds, "We're treated normally...
...Berggasse 19. "Looking up at his quarters, I always wondered why this great man chose to live there." (Bettelheim has a theory about that too.) Finally, Vienna expelled both of them, Freud to sanctuary in London in 1938, Bettelheim to a year in the concentration camps at Dachau and Buchenwald...