Holocaust Survivor & WWII Veteran Describes the Day WWII Ended
Author: USC Shoah Foundation via YouTube
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Today we honor VE Day, a day that commemorates the surrender of all German military operations in 1945. Arnost Graumann was both a survivor of the Holocaust and later a liberator with the British Army. He was interviewed in 1988, in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. In this clip from his testimony, he talks about the day the war ended. He recalls the sights, sounds, and feelings he and his fellow soldiers experienced.
Graumann was born on December 18, 1919 in Vienna, Austria. After seeing the troubling rise in antisemitism, Arnost escaped to London and joined the British army. Arnost’s unit participated in the invasion of France on June 6, 1944 and was in Dunkirk on May 8, 1945.
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