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7. interesting question. i always assumed he was jewish but honestly i'm not sure i remember.
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 10:32 PM
Aug 2016

i also don't remember if the signs were in english. my mother is a holocaust survivor, born in vienna, so she spoke german. i do remember her translating signs and such throughout west germany; she might have translated the displays at dachau and now in my memory i just remember seeing and understanding them. sorry, i was only 8 years old at the time!

one more bit i do remember, we had to stop and ask a local for directions. turns out it was just another 1/4 mile up the same road, but the local had no idea where it was. my nature is to take people at their word, but my father was uncharacteristically upset when we found the concentration camp entrance a minute later. he insisted (reasonably enough, in retrospect) that there was no way they couldn't know they lived practically next door it.

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i visited dachau in 1972. the tour guide was a former prisoner. unblock Aug 2016 #5
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interesting question. i always assumed he was jewish but honestly i'm not sure i remember. unblock Aug 2016 #7
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