Word: dachau
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...survived an attack by a German U-boat and was later abandoned in India when British officials realized he was Jewish. After being drafted into the U.S. Army in 1943, Sonnenfeldt, who died Oct. 9 at 86, fought in the Battle of the Bulge and helped liberate the Dachau concentration camp. In 1945 the native German speaker became the U.S. military's chief interpreter at the Nuremberg trials--a post in which he interrogated several of Adolf Hitler's most sadistic henchmen, including Hermann G�ring and Rudolf Hess. After the trials ended, Sonnenfeldt almost never discussed them. It wasn...
...Alps when Mario was born in 1937. She had fallen in with a group of bohemian writers who believed, her son says with just a trace of bemusement, that "they could wipe out Fascism and Nazism with a pen." After the Gestapo came in 1941 to take her to Dachau, Mario landed on the streets. He was 4 years...
...when American soldiers liberated Dachau, Lucy went hunting for her son. She scoured hospital records, searching for more than a year before she tracked him down. It was on his 9th birthday, Oct. 6, 1946, that the mother he scarcely recognized arrived, a new Tyrolean outfit in hand, including the hat with the feather. She took him to Rome, where he had his first bath in six years, and ultimately to the New World, where they settled in a Quaker commune outside Philadelphia...
...produced by Alison H. Rich ’09, “Bent” is playwright Martin Sherman’s best-known work, chronicling the story of three homosexual men who begin the play in Berlin. By the end of the first act, they are in Dachau...
Flynn uses the available space masterfully to portray the main characters’ journey from their apartment to a tent city and ultimately Dachau. One particularly effective moment comes during the first half of the play, as Max and Rudy sit in the center of the stage—physically close to their apartment, but clearly feeling displaced from home...