Nassau County Legislature Deputy Minority Leader Arnold W. Drucker (D – Plainview) joined his colleagues in government and the community at the Museum of American Armor on Friday, April 4 to commemorate 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald by American G.I.s.
Presented through a partnership between the Museum and the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County, attendees at the solemn ceremony included descendants of the soldiers who helped liberate the camps and Holocaust survivor Fred Zeilberger, whose father survived Buchenwald.
“As concentration camps such as Dachau and Buchenwald were steadily liberated leading up to Nazi Germany’s surrender in May 1945, the full extent of Hitler’s depravity and barbarism was exposed to the world,” Deputy Minority Leader Drucker said. “I commend the Museum of American Armor and the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center for presenting a moving ceremony that paid fitting tribute to the more than six million Jews that were murdered by the Nazis and honored the courageous men who liberated Europe and the world. May this solemn occasion inspire us all to reaffirm our unwavering commitment to uprooting and destroying antisemitism and hatred wherever it may fester so that such atrocities never happen again.”