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American Jewish Officer Recounts Nazi Horrors
(Ynet News) Amir Alon - In May 1945, Dr. Alvin Weinstein, a Jewish doctor in the American army, wrote to his wife of the scenes he witnessed at a recently liberated Nazi concentration camp. Following his death last year, Weinstein's letters and pictures were donated in February by his family to the archives of the Massuah Institute for Holocaust Studies in Tel Yitzhak. "Believe it or not, I was the commander of a concentration camp near the Alps." Weinstein described the physical condition of the prisoners he met, including some who survived death marches. "I saw 243 starved, tortured and disease-stricken bodies that were once human beings. 170 of them were Polish Jews who were the only survivors of the 1,600 who had left the Buchenwald concentration camp. They walked 440 km. barefoot for 28 days. They were given five potatoes a day and no water. Anyone who fell or received food from civilians was shot dead by SS soldiers."