Holocaust Survivor Salutes Liberator In Emotional Meeting Decades Later

January 26, 2015
Los Angeles

A Holocaust survivor recently reunited with a American infantryman who helped to save his life decades ago.

Joshua Kaufman, 87, a former restrained in a Dachau thoroughness stay in Germany, met with one of his liberators, U.S. Army maestro Daniel Gillespie, in Huntington Beach, California, late final December. Kaufman saluted a maestro 70 years after a stay was freed. The assembly was organised by executive Emanuel Rotstein, and will be featured in a documentary, “Liberators of Dachau,” according to a press recover from a History Channel.

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Joshua Kaufman, saluting his liberator, Daniel Gillespie, during their assembly in Huntington Beach, California

“I have wanted to do this for 70 years. I adore you

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Kaufman, kissing Gillespie’s feet.

American army arrived during Dachau to acquit a prisoners on Apr 29, 1945. At a time, Kaufman was incarcerated as a worker laborer, put to work during an ammunition plant right outward a camp, a recover stated. He had mislaid his mom and 3 siblings in a Auschwitz thoroughness camp. When Gillespie, who served as a appurtenance gunner in a 42nd Rainbow Division, and his associate soldiers came to giveaway a some-more than 30,000 prisoners during Dachau, Kaufman pronounced he was overcome with emotion.

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Kaufman and Gillespie during their romantic meeting.

“I saw a white dwindle drifting from a watchtower and we satisfied afterwards that a woe was during an end. When a Americans crushed in a door, my heart did somersaults

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Kaufman and Gillespie during their romantic meeting. became a salesman

Gillespie, from his time in a U.S. Army.

Joshua Kaufman and Daniel Gillespie’s reunion will atmosphere as partial of “Dachau thoroughness stay — The hour of a Liberators” on May 31, 2015 on History Germany.

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