Chwatsky Farber POST 717

Jewish War Veterans of The United States

 

 

 

                

Memorial

Lest we forget

Elie Weisel  (bottom center)

Elie Weisel   (front left)

A HAPPY STORY

Buchenwald-Belsen

Maurice Vegh & Hank Rosen met for the first time in 56 years at our annual barbecue Bristal lunch. SVC Al Chanon invited his good friend Hank Rosen, a WWII veteran  to the luncheon.  Hank accepted the invitation. At the luncheon Al met Post member Maurice Vegh who was a prisoner  in the Buchenwald concentration camp during the war, Hank was a member of the unit that liberated  these Jewish prisoners. They both remembered that liberation.

Post OD Bob Shatz Combat Medic Hillersben, Germany

 

WW II Combat Medic

American troops liberating the camp.

Piles of captured arms taken from the guards at Belsen-Buchenwald. The concentration camp headquarters are in the background