Kids & Family
Holocaust Survivor Reunited with Soldier Who Liberated Camp
"If not for Alan, my entire family and I would not be alive today," said Aron Wieder.
Alan Moskin was an 18-year-old soldier in the 71st Infantry Division, serving in General George Patton’s Third Army when his unit liberated the 15,000 Jews imprisoned in a forced labor camp in in Gunskirchen, Austria.
One of the prisoners saved that day was the grandmother of Rockland County Legislator Aron B. Wieder.
After Wieder and fellow Legislator John Murphy discovered the connection at a county veterans' event, they brought the two together.
“To witness these two people, each having survived the brutality of the war, meeting after 70 years, a lifetime for many, is a surreal and a very emotional experience,” said Murphy.
Read more about this heartwarming tale of coincidence on Patch in the Rockland County Legislature's Blog.
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