Leon Merrick: Evacuation and Arrival at Buchenwald
First Person Podcast
English - April 29, 2009 14:00 - 8.23 MB - ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsSociety & Culture holocaust survivor ushmm museum shoah testimony eyewitness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In December 1944, as the Soviet army approached the slave labor camp in Poland where Leon Merrick was imprisoned, the Germans evacuated him to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Leon shares his recollections of the evacuation and his first day in Buchenwald.