Holocaust Survivor Meets with US Veteran Who Liberated Her Camp

The Fellowship  |  May 20, 2019

Screen capture of Holocaust survivor meeting American soldier who helped free her.

After all these years, Holocaust survivor Sophie Tajch Klisman had a chance to meet a U.S. veteran who helped liberate her camp reports the Times of Israel:

A Holocaust survivor welcomed a US Army veteran to her suburban Detroit home on Monday and thanked him for taking part in the 1945 liberation of the German concentration camp where she was being held.

Sophie Tajch Klisman, 89, greeted Doug Harvey with a hug and thanked the 95-year-old for taking part in the liberation of the Salzwedel camp, telling him: “You gave me my life.”

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