Tune in, Wed. April 18th, 2012
Israeli Broadcast Authority Channel One
30 minute broadcast nationwide in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day
Time 21:30
“A Train between Life and Death”
“Train to Freedom”
It was a strange and special meeting. Train made its way to Bergen-Belsen at the end of World War II and her hundreds of Jews in the systematic destruction, was arrested by American soldiers. Americans were first exposed the horrors of the Holocaust. They got the passengers and ordered the residents of the environment to deal with them and feed them.
More than 60 years after the event was a meeting between U.S. rescuers and survivors and cameras were there.
Click on the link below for the film in Hebrew with English subtitles.
And below you can see what happens in this nation of 7 million on this day when the remembrance sirens sound. That evening, everything closes, and perhaps a few million viewed the film above on national television.
Teaching History Matters 
I’ve just watched the movie on IBA. Amazing story and truly inspirational. I’ve wanted to write Mr. Frank Towers to express awe and encouragement for his role in liberating the train and for the work he’s doing to tell the story.
Can you provide me with his e-mail, or does he have a Facebook account?
Sincerely
Ron Adini
consnsus@zahav.net.il
Israel
My adoptive father was one of the Jerries, the Germans, taken captive by the 30th Division. He was small, just like the guy in the picture you posted by George Gross. He gave himself up to the 30th Division somewhere between Magdeburg and the Czech border.
The 30th Division set him free after a short time in the “cage,” in June 1945. Lt. Sharpe of the 120th Infantry Regiment signed his Control Form D2, his release papers.
But Papa was not free inside. “Jerry” is too soft – he was a Nazi. He didn’t get it. He held on to many of their ideas, denied what he did in the war, and worst of all, he became a Holocaust denier later on in life.
No need to say more. The fear in his heart brought a lot of suffering.
I am writing to say on Yom HaShoah that I am deeply sorry for the things that my father did, that were done in my name.
And I am sorry for the awful denial that followed. I fought the silence all my life. I became a historian, teach (Russian and European history), trying to undo the Nazi legacy as much as possible.
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we are asked to remember those of ill will, too, if only briefly. I’m writing to say thank you for liberating my dad, too. To save – or spare – a life will eventually lead to something positive, even if that person does not do good afterwards. Perhaps he was saved so I could teach and not give up hope.
Thank you from my heart to the liberators, among them Frank Towers, who was so kind to speak to me, and even to connect me to one of the survivors. And thank you to the survivors and their children, for living life so joyfully and strongly, an example to all of us.
Miki Pohl, Poughkeepsie, NY
April 2012