“They treated them like cattle,” he said. “They were malnourished; they needed medical attention.”
Among the prisoners was Andrew Roth, a Jewish Hungarian teenager who had survived several concentration camps, including Auschwitz. Roth, 97, remembers the day he was liberated from Buchenwald with complete clarity.
“It was unbelievable,” he said.
Recently, 80 years after the men first crossed paths, their lives intersected once again — though this time in Los Angeles, where they both live. Their reunion was arranged by the USC Shoah Foundation, with the goal of bringing together a survivor and a liberator whose lives converged amid the horrors of the war. The reunion was first reported by NPR.
