Buchenwald

He first marched to concentration camp Buchenwald and later on to Terezin, where he was liberated on the brink of death from exhaustion and typhus.

Those who survived were put onto open cattle cart trains heading further west, usually to other concentration camps, like Buchenwald.

While there, he and Aramin also toured the former Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald.

Doing the bidding of the Nazis, the railway also sent more than 16,000 political prisoners to camps and prisons such as Buchenwald, the report found.

“I’ve been in pain,” said David Schaecter, 94, who spent nearly three years in Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, as tears welled up.