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Rabbi who brought word of freedom to Buchenwald survivors dies at 95

The smoke was still rising as Rabbi Herschel Schacter rode through the gates of Buchenwald. It was April 11, 1945, and Gen. George S. Patton’s Third Army had liberated the concentration camp scarcely an hour before. Rabbi Schacter, who was attached to the Third Army’s Eighth Corps, was the first Jewish chaplain to enter in its wake.

 

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