Posted on 08/04/2023 4:46:13 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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.
After the colorized clip was posted to YouTube, several Holocaust survivors came forward, claiming to recognize themselves and their family members in the video.
“I don’t want to say I am gratified or vindicated, because even without this footage, this is an incredible story,” said Matthew Rozell, a Holocaust researcher and decorated former history professor who had found the clip in the US National Archives, the Times Of Israel reported.
Dubbed “Miracle at Farsleben,” the rescue operation occurred on April 13, 1945, while 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.
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“...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?”
I have in my possession a collection of poems written by the children of Theresienstadt and translated into English, with artwork. Some historical society or other published it.
Looks mostly like they were on their way “to” the camps. There was once a film I saw put out as an Official US Army evidentiary piece (with attestations from officers, etc. involved) that was about an hour long. It showed the horrors of what the US Army found when they came upon the camps.
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