Survivor Recalls Miserable Life at Buchenwald Concentration Camp

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2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. • One of the survivors, Heinrich Rotmensch, recalled his miseries suffered in the camp at the liberation memorial activity on Saturday, Weimar, Germany. • According to Heinrich Rotmensch, when the Nazis ruled Germany, he, a 15-year-old child, was detained by the Nazi SS. • This happened on Oct. 25, 1939, as he was sending a message to his uncle in another city and was kept in the camps until April 28, 1945. • A local German, Rotmensch studied, played, lived and grew up just like any other German children. But his fate was completely changed just due to his Jewish identity. • After 1939, he never met his parents again and later learned that his mother died in a gas chamber of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Poland, while his father was shot dead by the Nazis army nobody knows where. His elder brother survived at the camp, but died in war in the Middle East in 1949. • Seventy years have passed. I grew up in concentration camps and in eight concentration camps. I was transferred from the Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp in Poland to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. And then I was transferred to a small town in Tuttlingen, said Heinrich Rotmensch. • Tens of thousands of people were waiting for death in the camps. As the World War Ⅱ neared its end, the Nazi Army carried out a wanton massacre. • Rotmensch and many others were rescued by the French Army after it marched into Germany. • The French controlled the whole train as we were being sent to the execution site. Fortunately, we ran into the French Army and got saved, said Rotmensch. • Rotmensch returned to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp and recalled many other details about his sufferings there. The remaining old railway seems to particularly remind him of the moment when he got off the train and headed to the camp. • This is the first time he has visited a concentration camp in the past 70 years. He prayed for his parents and brothers in Hebrew in front of the Monument to the Jewish Victims. • After the praying, Rotmensch said the German government has done well by reflecting on the Nazi history with a clear and consistent attitude and hoped that it can keep the self-reflection spirit. • More on: http://newscontent.cctv.com/NewJsp/ne... • Subscribe us on Youtube: / @cctvvideonewsagency • CCTV+ official website: http://newscontent.cctv.com/ • LinkedIn: / cctv-news-content • Facebook: / 756877521031964 • Twitter: / newscontentplus

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