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...experiences in concentration camps during World War II to warn against the dangers of discrimination and to emphasize the importance of kindness, before a crowd of nearly 400 last night in Memorial Church. Between the ages of 13 and 15, Burian spent time in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, and Gunskirchen, concentration camps in Poland and Austria. Burian told his story to the crowd to fulfill his personal responsibility “as a witness” to history, he said. “I urge you to do your part, to participate in the liberation of the human race to whatever...
...film didn't have to be this way. All Black Army units did help liberate some concentration camps, according to the Holocaust Memorial Museum. Indeed, the 761st helped liberate the smaller camp of Gunskirchen, while the all-Black 703rd Tank Battalion helped liberate a subcamp of Buchenwald...
...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...
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