Posted on 05/20/2016 9:08:58 PM PDT by Lera
Full title :Heartwarming moment World War II veteran, 94, is reunited with man he saved from Nazi concentration camp in 1945
A 94-year-old World War II veteran was reunited with one of the prisoners he helped liberate from the Dachau concentration camp.
Retired U.S. Army corporal Sid Shafner said he was among the first Allied troops to reach the Nazi camp in April 1945, and that he is the last surviving member of his unit.
His tearful reunion with Marcel Levy, 90, who was a teenager when he was liberated, came during a recent tour of Europe and Israel.
'You know, everything that I have today is because of you. You saved my life. Because you had the patience to speak to me, to take to me,' Levy said while holding Shafner's hand, according to WFAA.
'Don't praise me,' Shafner replied. 'If it wasn't me, it would have been someone else.'
The two old friends met on an Israeli military base during a trip organized by FIDF, a non-profit organization supporting Israeli troops.
The last time they saw each other was 1995.
'I have been in touch with him all these years. Through postcards, greeting cards, and now email on the computer,' Shafner, who lives in a retirement home in Denver, told WFAA.
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WOW! Thanks for posting.
Can’t wait to read. Thanks for posting.
Before and during World War 2 Germany and Japan were examples of Big Government countries where citizens too easily gave up their God given rights to politicians.
And those who fail to learn from history....
Plenty of people in the world today who would love to see all Jews dead and they aren’t all mooselimbs.
My Dad’s outfit liberated the camp at Ebensee, Austria.
Almost all survivors of the camps were teenagers, the old and very young died.
A liberated prisoner from Ebensee found my Dad’s outfit at one of their reunions 50 years later. He simply said, “I’ve been looking for you guys for 50 years.”
My dad said that as they were fighting the Nazis in
Italy & making their way up to Germany, word came down
through the ranks of what the Nazis were doing to the
Jews. He said they began fighting even harder than before
trying to get to them. Army Infantry, 88th/351st
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