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In reply to the discussion: International Holocaust Remembrance Day:Have you ever been to a Concentration Camp or met a survivor [View all]Greybnk48
(10,178 posts)34. As a surg.tech. student (70's), I worked with two surgeons, both had arm tattoos.
They were a husband and wife and had met in a camp as children. It was jarring and shocking to see the tattoos every time I gowned and gloved them.
I worked with them a few times after I graduated when they came to my permanent hospital to assist another doc in surgery. They did not talk about their experience, other people told me the little that I know. I'm not sure, but I believe they were in Auschwicz. I know they were somewhere notoriously vicious but can't say with absolute certainty.
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day:Have you ever been to a Concentration Camp or met a survivor [View all]
Behind the Aegis
Jan 2019
OP
Met survivors, never been to mainland Europe, but took the kids to the Holocaust Museum in DC
Maeve
Jan 2019
#14
I would like to go to visit a concentration camp. I still can't wrap my mind around what the
UniteFightBack
Jan 2019
#16
My husband's parents were Holocaust survivors. One of his elderly cousins leads tours of Auschwitz
Hekate
Jan 2019
#21
I have not been to a concentration camp, but I have been to many Jewish graveyards,, memorials and
smirkymonkey
Jan 2019
#23
As a surg.tech. student (70's), I worked with two surgeons, both had arm tattoos.
Greybnk48
Jan 2019
#34