Holocaust Survivor Spots Himself & Brother in Concentration Camp Picture While Surfing Online

March 29, 2017

Toronto-based Holocaust survivor Yehuda Danzig, 82, was startled when he saw a photo of himself and his brother in a concentration camp published in the Times of Israel. The image is deceptively cheerful. Taken in April 1945, it shows a dozen or so children smiling through a barbed wire fence. They are prisoners at Bergen-Belsen, a Nazi Germany concentration camp, and they have just been liberated. Yehuda Danzig, 82, recognized two boys in the picture after it was recently published in the Times of Israel. One was him at the age of 11. The other was his brother Michael, who was 12 at the time. It was the first and only photo he’d seen of himself as a prisoner. “I started to cry,” says the soft-spoken Danzig. “I couldn’t believe it.” Danzig had been in the kitchen reading the newspaper on h

Holocaust Survivor Spots Himself & Brother in Concentration Camp Picture While Surfing Online
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