I Was Detached About My Family's Holocaust Story....Until I Went to Buchenwald
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Dana Mitch tells the story of her trip to Buchenwald, the largest concentration camp on German soil, and how she reconnected with her family because of it.
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| 0:51.4 | Up next, a story from writer Dana Mitch. |
| 0:56.6 | Today, she shares a piece of her family story, a piece that occurred in Buchanwald, one of the largest concentration camps and the largest on German soil. Take it away, |
| 1:04.5 | Dana. A few months ago, I stood at Buchanwald in a large open field that was covered in an endless |
| 1:13.7 | expanse of rocky gray gravel. |
| 1:17.3 | The ground that I gazed at before me was where the barracks once had been. |
| 1:26.4 | On that unnaturally humid and sunny afternoon, thunder ominously clapped from heavy storm clouds that loomed off in the distance. |
| 1:34.3 | The skies certainly echoed my state of mind. |
| 1:39.3 | As for anyone that visits a concentration camp, it was a particularly sobering and gut-wrenching |
| 1:46.1 | experience. |
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