A World War ll veteran from Colorado was reunited with a Holocaust survivor whom he set free from a concentration camp seven decades ago. Sid Shafner, age 94, is back in the U.S. after taking a eight-day trip to Israel and Poland last week. Shafner was honored at a holocaust remembrance ceremony for his hand in helping to liberate some 30,000 prisoners from Dachau Concentration Camp in Southern Germany in 1945.
"Sid tells the story that his convoy was stopped by a Jew named Marcel," Peter Weintraub, president of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, told ABC New. "Marcel tells him in Yiddish that 'You have to leave your route and divert to help us,' which he did. "
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Wow! I couldn't imagine the feeling Sid Shafner got after seeing the Holocaust survivor he set free. People live for doing/hearing about those things happening.
ReplyDeleteThat is truly an amazing story, you can tell Shafner really has his heart in the right place for what he did to save so many lives. It is upstanders like this that show us that even in dark times there are still heroes.
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