When Lewis first saw Buchenwald, he was a young man but an experienced soldier.
He was arrested by the Gestapo and later sent to the Buchenwald and Dora concentration camps.
He was in Dresden, he was in Buchenwald, he was in Baden-Baden for the NATO conference.
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So in the end, I come back to something Elie said that day we visited Buchenwald together.
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He also recounted his own visits to the Buchenwald concentration camp as president, and to Israel, before he was elected.
He will travel to Buchenwald, the concentration camp his great uncle helped liberate, a visit that makes personal and historical sense.
Buchenwald, the sixth and final camp Avital was in, became infamous for the cruelty its SS, or Schutzstaffel, officers inflicted on prisoners.
And as we walked, I was taken back to the visit that Elie mentioned, the time that we traveled together to Buchenwald.
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He is a survivor of both the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
They liberated Ohrdruf, part of Buchenwald, on an April day in 1945.
The main Buchenwald camp was officially liberated on April 11, 1945.
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Schacter served as an Army chaplain during World War II and was able to participate in the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Obama will follow his visit to Egypt with a trip to the remains of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany on June 5.
The last time Avital and Lewis were near each other was on the grounds of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, nearly 70 years ago.
He was among the first wave of soldiers who liberated Buchenwald.
He and the other soldiers were once taken to what Acevedo believes was the main camp of Buchenwald, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) from Berga.
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"Now that I met you, a real soldier who fought in order to get to Buchenwald, it gives me a real wonderful feeling, " Avital told Lewis.
As a spy for the French Resistance, he survived the Nazi death camp at Buchenwald by assuming the identity of a French prisoner who was already dead.
Charles de Gaulle in 1941, but snuck back into occupied France on a spying mission in 1944, where he was arrested by the Gestapo and shipped off to the Nazis' Buchenwald concentration camp.
She had written Charles Vogel on July 12, 1946, telling him that her beloved boy died a horrible death at Berga, a subcamp of Buchenwald where thousands of Jews and other political prisoners were killed.
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