Jewish War Veterans invite you all to the New York State Museum in Saratoga Springs on Saturday, April 26 at 2 pm for a special program as we prepare to mark the 80th anniversary of the WWII liberation of the Dachau Concentration Camp and its more than 30,000 prisoners. In partnership with the Military Museum, I will present the combat history of the 42nd Infantry Division across Europe in the spring of 1945, culminating with the liberation of prisoners from the notorious Dachau Concentration Camp on April 29, 1945. The division continues its service today here in Troy as part of the NY Army National Guard. See the flyer or read more here
I will be joined by Evelyn Loeb, a Delmar resident, whose father Walter Loeb, was arrested following Kristallnacht and detained at Dachau in November 1938. He was released in the late winter of 1939, obtained passage to the United States in 1940 and would go on to serve in the U.S. armed forces in the Pacific theater. He passed away in 2009. Loeb will discuss her father’s experience before the program turns to liberation in 1945.
Our program will discuss the liberation through the perspective of 42nd Infantry Division soldier Richard Marowitz, who lived in Albany and passed away in 2014 at age 88.Marowitz was also a past commander of the Jewish War Vets Albany Post 105 and spoke with area congregations over the years for Yom HaShoah programs.
Rich Goldenberg
Commander, Capital District Council
Adjutant, Albany Post 105
Jewish War Veterans of the US
