Leon Merrick: Evacuation and Arrival at Buchenwald

First Person Podcast by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Apr 29, 2009Society & Culture

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 o...

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