A World War II veteran shares his story on liberating prisoners from a concentration camp.
World War II veteran Bob Persinger was one of the first American soldiers who liberated the prisoners at the Ebensee camp in Austria.
He spoke at Bradley University Wednesday afternoon for the lecture series "Inside the Gates."
The series is about the horrors witnessed at the Nazi concentration camp.
Persinger called Ebensee a "death camp" where famished prisoners were worked to death.
"Behind the gates of that camp were enclosed were 18,400 some starving prisoners-starving and worked to death," said Persinger.
Persinger said that the average prisoner weighed between 75 and 85 pounds.
Dr. Richard Macdonald leads the lectures and gathered his information from his father who was the commanding officer of the 139th evacuation hospital.
He will give the final lecture of his series Wednesday October 14th, 2pm at the Bradley University Cullom-Davis Library.
Twitter
Connect With Us