Children of Holocaust Survivors, WWII Veterans Commemorate 75th Anniversary of Dachau Concentration Camp Liberation – By Alison Gowans (The Gazette) / April 26 2020
Seventy five years ago, two people met on the day they were liberated from the Dachau concentration camp in Germany.
They had survived horrors, and lost their entire extended families — hundreds of people between them; cousins, siblings, parents, aunts, uncles and they were far from the Polish hometowns they’d been kidnapped from.
The two formed a bond and decided to start a new family. A year after liberation, in 1946, Fred and Ann Gilbert married. They went on to emigrate to the United States and to raise three children. They built a new life.
“Dad had been in concentration camps over five years, mom over four years. They both were near death many times,” their youngest daughter Lena Gilbert said. “Their sole survival technique was that they were determined to survive to be able to tell people what happened. As my mom would say, they survived by knowing that one day the hell would end, and they would have their life again, and they would tell the world what happened.”
Though Ann died in 2008 and Fred in 2009, Lena Gilbert continues to tell her parents’ story.
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