Biography & True Stories
The Boy From Buchenwald
by Robert Waisman with Susan McClelland
When American forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany on April 11th 1945 they were astonished to discover nearly 1000 emaciated Jewish boys among the political prisoners… No one knew what to do with them – and for two months, they were left sleeping in the prison dormitories, often stealing to feed themselves as the authorities tried to track down any relations. When an exposé appeared in Le Figaro, a French charity (co-founded by Albert Einstein) stepped in and took 472 of the boys to France for rehabilitation. This is one heart-rending story – told through the eyes of 14-year-old Romek Wajman; one of the boys from Buchenwald...
