01 Aug

Posted at 14:58h in Our Stories
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John Gualtier of Cedar Rapids was a 19 year old combat medic with the 71st infantry when he entered the Gunskirchen Lager Concentration Camp in the spring of 1945. Gaultier spent a week in the camp, treating the mostly Hungarian Jews for dysentery and starvation. “We...

26 May

Posted at 12:39h in Our Stories
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Although Fred and Ann Gilbert are gone now, their daughter Lena Gilbert of Springville recounted their story to the Cedar Rapids Gazette in 2012. It’s one thing for me to talk about the Holocaust,” said Lena Gilbert. “It’s another thing for my father to sit there...