Now It's History
The black GIs who liberated Hitler's victims
Jul 13, 202642 minS0
<p>Samuel Pisar was 10 years old when Nazi invaders rounded up the Jewish community of Bialystok, Poland. He survived three death camps and, the New York Times wrote in 2009, “was condemned to die at least twice, but managed to slip back into the general prison population, once convincing a guard that he was there only to wash the floor.”</p><p>When the Germans began fleeing the victorious allied troops near the end of the war, they forced camp inmates to walk for miles to other camps. Pisar escaped and hid in the Bavarian woods. As his stepson U.S. Secr...
