Symposium at upstate NY school reunites survivors of Nazi death train with American liberators

NY symposium reunites Holocaust survivors, US vets

HUDSON FALLS, N.Y. — Several survivors of a Nazi train transporting concentration camp inmates are being reunited with some of the Army veterans who liberated them during World War II.

Nine survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp are taking part in a three-day history symposium starting Wednesday at Hudson Falls High School, 45 miles north of Albany.

They were among some 2,500 Jewish men, women and children aboard a Nazi train that had departed the concentration camp ahead of advancing Allied troops in April 1945. They were liberated near Magdeburg, Germany by units of the 30th Infantry Division.

Three survivors were first reunited with one of the liberators during a reunion held at the school in September 2007. This week’s reunion includes five survivors who are meeting their liberators for the first time.