EL PASO — Starving and trudging for 12 days through snow and freezing rain in lice-infested rags, 16-year-old old David Kaplan was marching to an almost certain death.
During four years in Nazi concentration camps, Kaplan survived by using his wits, borrowing, trading, and stealing. In Dachau Concentration Camp, Kaplan took advice from another inmate —a Hungarian doctor— and boiled pine cones to get some vitamins into his emaciated body. At the time of the death march the boy weighed 70 pounds. "I did what I had to do to survive," Kaplan told journalism students recently at the University of Texas at El Paso.
Full article by Matthew Maldonado especial for Borderzine.com: http://www.borderzine.com/content/view/201/
@Honeydukes99 He can sound in whatever way... The man still WAS THERE..in that hell.
aFemale1 2 months ago
He makes it sound like nothing more than a prison. But I wish I could meet him!
Honeydukes99 1 year ago