Incredible moment Jewish boys who shared unimaginable hell in concentrations camps are liberated
manchestereveningnews.co.ukIt’s a friendship in the making, captured in black and white. Before they even knew each other, Sam Laskier and Ike Alterman were pictured together in the most extraordinary photograph.
Squashed among dozens of men, the boys can be seen sitting atop a wagon that was taking them to a concentration camp as they were liberated by the Russian army. READ MORE: Despite having lived such similar lives during the war, it would be months before Ike and Sam met properly, and decades before they realised they had been side-by-side that day.
They were just boys when they witnessed unspeakable atrocities at the hands of the Nazis in Jewish ghettos and concentration camps.
Both were treated with utter cruelty as they laboured and starved at Auschwitz-Birkenau. And both were terrified as they endured the freezing-cold journey in an open wagon to Theresienstadt - where they were being sent to die.
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