“A New York history educator restored a lost piece of history after unearthing harrowing footage that depicts US soldiers freeing Jewish people from a train bound for a Nazi death camp.”
“...a Nazi train was ferrying 2,500 Jewish prisoners from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp — where iconic Jewish refugee Anne Franke died just weeks earlier — to Theresienstadt.”
Thresienstadt was not a death camp, but a for-show model camp that exhibited for propaganda purposes well-fed Jews engaging in art and music, and listening to literary discussions and theatrical productions.
In fact, it was a way-station for inmates before they were sent further East to the real death camps. But the author of this piece in the Post did not do his homework. And there was so little homework to do.
“...but a for-show model camp that exhibited for propaganda purposes well-fed Jews...”
Interesting. While some of the captives in the film were gaunt, they weren’t the skin and bone that I’ve seen photos of from the death camps.
The band “RUSH” did a song about freeing a death camp. Singer Geddy Lee’s parents met in a camp, and after being set free the camps were made into refugee centers and they were married in one.
I can only imagine what the prisoners thought when they saw a column of military approaching the train.
“I hear the sound of gunfire
At the prison gate
Are the liberators here-
Do I hope or do I fear?”