Solly ganor remembrance poems

Thus the remnants of the once glorious Lithuanian Jewry, died from starvation, exhaustion and freezing weather and their bodies lay strewn about where they fell and were shot. This tragedy took place at the end of April 1945 on the picturesque roads of Bavaria.

Solly Ganor survived the death march, and was liberated by a unit of the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion of the US Army.

Solly ganor remembrance poems

The unit consisted of Japanese American soldiers. Ironically, many of these soldiers volunteered for military service from American relocation camps. The person who saved him was Private Clarence Matsumura, who in 1992 was reunited with Solly in Jerusalem.

After his liberation Solly spent some time with the American army where he worked as an interpreter for a US Army intelligence unit that was identifying and prosecuting Nazi collaborators hiding among the Displaced persons.

Solly’s father who survived the Death March, married a Canadian woman, who was in charge of United Nations Relief Agency (UNNRA) i