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Buchenwald 142: Remembering the children at Christmas time


As a child, I was raised in a Jewish family living in an adamantly Catholic neighborhood.  We were taught to enjoy the season as a holiday for the children of my Dad’s patients.  Some of these patients became dear friends , giving us small toys that we put in stockings hung from  our fireplace.  At that time I did not know that a decade or so earlier, my Dad had entered the Buchenwald camp giving care to the children in Kinderblock. 

 
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Read about my brother’s efforts to destroy my father’s heritage as the US medic who first entered the camp.

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Speaking Monday and Tuesday (late Ocyober 2016)  on the youngest children in Buchenwald at U. Tennessee-Chattanooga.

Appeared with Julius Maslovat, who was the youngest of the Ken Waltzer poster icothree youngest children — only two and a half years old in Buchenwald. Here is Josef Shleifstein, another of the youngest children. I

will be showing Kinderblock 66, speaking on “The Three Youngest Children in Buchenwald,” and also lecturing on “Buchenwald Boys In the Palmach” and their contribution in Israel’s war of independence.

Ken Waltzer's photo.
Ken Waltzer's photo.

 


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