As the President of Iran takes the podium at the United Nations to deny the Holocaust, today’s Glens Falls, New York, Post Star.com reports on a three day reunion of a very unique group of people.  On April 13, 1945, First Lieutenant Frank Towers and a small tank battalion found a train the Nazis left behind near Magdeburg in central Germany.  The train was bound for one of the death camps and the Nazis had abandoned it as they fled the advancing allies. 

According to the article the train carried:

“…2,500 Jews locked inside old boxcars. Each boxcar carried 75 to 100 men, women and children who had been packed together for six days with little food, their sanitary facilities limited to a bucket.”

The American soldiers freed the Jews, provided care for them, and brought them to a safe location.  Hudson Falls High School got involved with this story when one of its history teachers interviewed one of the tank commanders and posted the information on the school website.  This led to a reunion of the soldiers and the train survivors hosted by the school in 2007. 

This year’s reunion began on Wednesday as soldiers and survivors again had a chance to meet and reflect on the events that brought them together.  These are the people we need to remember as we hear the lies that the Holocaust never happened.