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DACHAU'S INDELIBLE MARK JEWISH PRISONER, U.S. LIBERATOR RECALL CONCENTRATION CAMP
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In the shadow of Dachau, the man they called 69970 finally fell.
"Go ahead. Shoot me," the Jewish prisoner defiantly told the
German soldier bearing down on him.
"Shoot me."
By the end of April 1945, the 21-year-old had made it through
three concentration camps. At Sachsenhausen, his uncle and cousin
were killed. At Auschwitz, his father was shot, his mother was gassed
to death and he was tattooed with the number that would follow him
the rest of his life.
In the ne...
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