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saw radio and television antenna, gan a tedious search" last April,
pointing them out to his superior. Mrs. Sacks says. It took several
"Oh," the general said. "We're months' work, but Mr. Brohn
managed to secure the forgotten
outside Munich, are we?"
As the troops continued, they medals.
Next it was party planning
came to a large, fenced-in area
with a sign at the gate reading time.
Because it was going to be a
"Dachau." They entered, having
no idea what they were about to surprise, Mrs. Sacks had to do
everything surreptitiously. She
witness.
The war was coming to a close wanted to invite everyone from
and the Germans were beginning golfing pals to old army buddies
to abandon the death camps. to colleagues from SCORE, an or-
What they left behind was havoc. ganization of retired business ex-
"Men in striped uniforms were ecutives in which Mr. Sacks has
running about aimlessly." Bodies been active. That meant getting
lay in piles. There was a smoke- names and addresses.
"So I would say to Abe, 'Now,
stack, from which flowed what
Mr. Sacks describes as "a horrible who is it you usually send holiday
cards to? Do you have a list?'
smell."
"He never suspected a thing,"
Never saying a word, the Amer-
ican soldiers wandered through- she says.
Of course, she did need to make
out the camp and then just
outside the gates, where they saw certain her husband had no oth-
er plans for the evening, so she
a long line of boxcars.
Thousands of bodies lay on the told him, "I think the temple is go-
ground nearby. Others, equally ing to honor all the veterans who
lifeless, were still clinging to the are members of the congregation,
and you may be one of them."
doors of the train.
The event was set for Oct. 7 at
"Just across from the train I
saw a small, white church," Mr. Temple Emanu-El.
More than 140 friends and fam-
Sacks recalls. "I wondered how
the minister and all those people ily were waiting for Abraham
Sacks that evening. Among them
could face this."
Hours later, Lt. Sacks and his were his son, Andy, and daugh-
fellow soldiers arrived at an air- ter, Laura, both of whom spoke at
field, an open area from which the event (as did Mrs. Sacks), his
they could radio a message about five grandchildren, Rep. Sandy
their discovery at Dachau back to Levin, Temple Emanu-El Rabbi
Lane Steinger, SCORE member
headquarters.
Jack Caminker and a former
Then they saw them.
Eleven planes, each bearing a Army buddy who came from In-
swastika, were coming down. Sev- diana.
The guests sang the "Caisson
eral hundred Nazi soldiers dis-
embarked, then approached the Song" and other military theme
songs in honor of all those who
Americans.
Accompanied by only five men, fought, and after the dinner each
Lt. Sacks had no choice. He put man who had served his country
his hands up and advanced to- during the war was asked to
ward the Germans, telling his speak.
Though he himself lived
pals, "Wish me luck."
through
it, Mr. Sacks was partic-
What he didn't know was that
the enemy already had called it ularly impressed by hearing what
quits. The German troop's com- the men had endured. "Every
manding officer approached and man who was in the Army has a
saluted Lt. Sacks. Then, in per- story to tell," he says.
Today, pieces of the evening
fect English (he later explained he
had once been a student at the still remain in the Sacks' home.
University of California-Los An- There are posters with war pho-
geles), asked, "Where can we sur- tographs of Mr. Sacks superim- _
posed on maps of Europe, and
render?"
Days after the war, Abe Sacks letters Abe sent home to his
was on his way home. What did sweetheart, a volunteer with the
Red Cross during the war.
he need to stick around for?
"We are somewhere in the At-
What he missed, he learned
lantic,"
reads the first, a long mis-
more than 40 years later, was re-
ceiving seven medals: the Euro- sive written in clean, careful
pean African Middle Eastern script.
The last, though, is just a brief
Medal with a Silver Service Star,
sentence.
Dated Sept. 12, 1945, it
the American Theatre Medal, the
American Defense Medal, a World says, "Am on my way home."
War II Victory Medal, a Good
Conduct Medal, an Expert Badge
and a Marksman Badge.
Bea Sacks, however, was not
Captions identifying people
about to let her husband go with-
in the photographs on page 3
out his honors.
and the top of page 10 in last
After she discovered her hus-
week's story, "We Are All In
band's war record, she took the
Exile," were interchanged.
papers to Philip Brohn, with
The Jewish News regrets the
whom she works at U.S. Rep.
error.
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