European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse 6 the stars and stripes Friday. September 25, 1987 jewish chaplain leads death Camp tour writer Bergen-bel5en, Germany jewish chaplain maj Jacob golds Cin explained tic exhibits in the concentration Camp museum to a group of fellow army chaplains until he reached pictures of Horri Bly emaciated Camp survivors. You know. Ii just so difficult he exhaled once. Twice. Then moved on to inc pictures of open pits and tangled dead humanity. Jus to think. My parents looked like. It s just too Bergen bal san 1987. The same Camp Anne Frank disappeared into More than 40 years ago. Golds Cin a chaplain from the 101st signal in nation Al guard in Yonkers . Came to Germany to be with the . Iii corps on certain strike Maneu vers. He works in a building few Miles from the Camp where one or More of the grandparents on his father s Side of the family May have died. He is not sure. Fifty thousand people perished within the double fenced perimeter of bar gun bal san. Many Are buried in mass Graves on ground speckled with gravestones placed Here by survivors. Not on a grave. Just within Burgen Belsen. Nobody knows who is who memorials and Mounds. The British burned the Camp shortly after world War ii because of fears that he typhus epidemic within the Camp would spread to the surrounding Community. As a kid i had asked my parents Many times you know everybody has grandparents uncles cousins where Are mine Goldstein was born in a displaced persons Camp in France in 1946. His Mother and father survived work Camps in Poland. One Uncle left Poland for Palestine Early enough to escape he holocaust. Add them up and Goldstein had in immediate fam ily of three when he came into the world. Bar gun bal san is quiet today. People who visit it come out even quieter. There is something about a Headstone inscription that reads Here lie 2.500 Burgen feel san went into operation in 1943 As a col Lection Camp for Western european jews on their Way to
