World War II vet talks about experience as concentration camp liberator in new exhibit
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Apr 08, 2021, 7:48pm EDT
A World War II veteran from New Jersey has made it his life’s mission to educate people about what he saw as a concentration camp liberator. His story is now the subject of a new exhibit at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.
“ I am also a Jew.’ It just came out of me and of course once I said that, that was the connection with those poor souls,” says Alan Moskin.
The 95-year-old grew up in Englewood and now lives in Rockland County, New York. He recalls the first words he spoke to Nazi concentration camp survivors as he and other American troops liberated the Gunskirchen Lager camp in Austria on May 4, 1945.
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WWII museum exhibit features US soldier’s Holocaust memories
Visitors to the National WWII Museum will be able to ask questions of a U.S. soldier who helped liberate a Nazi concentration camp as part of a traveling interactive exhibit from the USC Shoah Foundation that uses technology to spread the stories of Holocaust survivors and witnesses.
The exhibit features a video screen showing Staff Sgt. Alan Moskin, an American veteran of World War II, who helped liberate a camp in Austria with 15,000 Hungarian Jews. Visitors can ask Moskin questions and listen to pre-recorded answers.
Moskin was interviewed over five days and asked about 1,000 questions so that he would be able to give tailored answers to just about any question a visitor would have.
Associated Press February 02, 2021 - 5:28 AM
NEW ORLEANS - Visitors to the National WWII Museum will be able to ask questions of a U.S. soldier who helped liberate a Nazi concentration camp as part of a travelling interactive exhibit from the USC Shoah Foundation that uses technology to spread the stories of Holocaust survivors and witnesses.
The exhibit features a video screen showing Staff Sgt. Alan Moskin, an American veteran of World War II, who helped liberate a camp in Austria with 15,000 Hungarian Jews. Visitors can ask Moskin questions and listen to pre-recorded answers. Moskin was interviewed over five days and asked about 1,000 questions so that he would be able to give tailored answers to just about any question a visitor would have.
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