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  • George Katzman, who helped liberate Dachau concentration camp, dies at 96

    05/15/2016 6:43:51 AM PDT · by Lera · 14 replies
    Miami Herald ^ | May 13, 2016 | Howard Cohen
    As a member of Gen. Patton's Third Army in World War II, George Katzman liberated the Dachau and Langwasser Lager concentration camps He devoted the second half of his life to speaking as a living witness to the horrors of the Holocaust *snip* George Katzman was a World War II veteran who lived in Aventura. *snip* The New York-born Katzman was a member of Gen. Patton's 3rd Army. He served as a rifleman, German/Yiddish translator and photographer. And on April 29, 1945, Pfc. Katzman, then 25, was one of the soldiers who shot the lock off the gate at the...