I can’t find it, but there’s a gut-wrenching excerpt from a Red Army soldier’s memoir about them trying to speak different languages to the prisoners upon discovering the camp. They weren’t understanding the soldiers until one spoke Yiddish, and then the prisoners’ eyes lit up because they realized they were safe.
I have heard this before too, I forget where. It’s a tearful moment when the Jewish prisoners realize the Red Army speaking to them are not Nazis and understand the Yiddish and break down crying realizing they are finally freed from their living nightmare
I can’t find it, but there’s a gut-wrenching excerpt from a Red Army soldier’s memoir about them trying to speak different languages to the prisoners upon discovering the camp. They weren’t understanding the soldiers until one spoke Yiddish, and then the prisoners’ eyes lit up because they realized they were safe.
I have heard this before too, I forget where. It’s a tearful moment when the Jewish prisoners realize the Red Army speaking to them are not Nazis and understand the Yiddish and break down crying realizing they are finally freed from their living nightmare