Evelyn Loeb, a Delmar resident, whose father Walter Loeb, was arrested following Kristallnacht and detained at Dachau in November 1938, will join the veterans in noting the Dachau Concentration Camp liberation. Loeb’s father was released in the late winter of 1939, obtained passage to the United States in 1940 and would later serve in the U.S. armed forces in the Pacific theater. He died in 2009.

Loeb will discuss her father’s experience before the discussion program turns to the liberation in 1945.

Goldenberg will review the liberation through the perspective of a former 42nd Infantry Division soldier Richard Marowitz, who at 19 was present at the liberation. Marowitz lived in Albany and died in 2014 at the age of 88. Marowitz was a past commander of the Albany Post 105 and spoke with area congregations over the years for Yom HaShoah programs.

The U.S. Army credits the 42nd Infantry, 45th Infantry and 20th Armored Divisions for the liberation, with all three participating in the camp’s capture or within 48 hours of liberation. The Dachau Concentration Camp was established by Nazi Germany in 1933. Situated on the outskirts of the town of Dachau, about 10 miles northwest of Munich, the camp was designed to hold about 5,000 political prisoners. Nearly 33,000 were present at the camp’s liberation.

Goldenberg will draw on the oral histories of former 42nd Division veterans archived at the Museum and Veterans Research Center as part of his discussion.