Harry Zaslow, who served in World War II and was a witness to the liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp, spoke at two local schools recently.
Students in the Millburn Middle School and the Oliver Street School in Newark heard first-hand accounts from Zaslow. Serving as a private first-class in the U.S. Army, he who wrote hundreds of letters to family back home describing the horrors he saw.
In one letter, sent to his mother and father on May 2, 1945, he said, "...what I saw today is too terrifying to put into words. One could never believe me if I told them what I saw but please believe me because I am telling you what I actually saw. I was in a ‘Nazi Death Camp.'"
Today, Zaslow and his wife live outside Philadelphia.
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