Eighty years after the Holocaust, too many individuals warned Meryl Eisenhower Atwater, nice grandson of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
His remarks got here on Thursday as nations all over the world celebrated the eightieth anniversary of their victory on Europe Day.
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Last month, Eisenhower Atwater took part in Living of the Living of the Holocaust Day on Holocaust Remembrans Day, walking with survivors and thousands of participants from around the world. The march follows the path from Auschwitz to Birkenau, to the occupied Poland Nazi Death Camp, and with a stern tribute to the victims and tribute to the survivors and their liberators.
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Ohrdruf concentration camp near Buchuard, Germany. The then American general Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of the chief of the European Union, and his soldiers discovered 70 prisoners who were shot down in a German courtyard on April 4th.
“One person is equal to multiple lives saved. It was not just liberating the camp, it was saving generations,” he added.
Among the participants in the march were the child survivors of Israel Meia Lau, a former rabbinic chief of Israel, and General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who personally met the Allied attacks on the Nazis in Europe during the liberation of the camp.
I also remembered Chime Herzog, the father of Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who was on hand for March. Chime Herzog, a British Army officer during World War II, played a role in the release of the Bergen-Bersen concentration camp. His father, Yitzhak Isaac Halevi Herzog, also became the chief rabbin of Israel, but in 1946 he competed with General Eisenhower as part of his mission to support Jewish survivors in postwar Europe.
Eisenhower Atwater called his inclusion “humility” and said that the march allowed him to “sit down and speak to the unhonored hero.”
Meril Eisenhower Atwater and Eva Clark of Auschwitz on April 23, 2025 (Photo: Chen Schimmel / International March of the Living)
Clark was born on April 29, 1945, in the Mautausen concentration camp, one of the only known babies born there.
Clark’s mother, Cowderova, endured three and a half years in the concentration camp. It was the Czechoslovakia, Teresienstadt in Auschwitz, and the Freiberg slave labor camp and armed factory in Germany. She was eventually transported in an open-cole wagon, along with 2,000 other prisoners, with a 17-day hard journey without food and minimal water to Mautausen.
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“At the end of September 1944, their luck ran out. My father was sent to Auschwitz, and incredibly my mother volunteered to follow him the next day. She had no idea where he was heading.
Anka never saw her husband again. Witnesses told her that they were shot dead on January 18, 1945 at a death march near Auschwitz. Auschwitz was released by the Russian troops on January 27th.
In 1943, Anka became pregnant. “It was dangerous, but she secretly met my father. Being pregnant in a concentration camp was considered a crime punishable by death,” Clark said.
After his release, Eva Clark is a baby his mother had in the Mautausen concentration camp. (Commentary: Eva Clarke)
Her brother was born in February 1944, but died two months later of pneumonia. “If the mother had arrived in Auschwitz with her baby in her arms, both would have been sent to the gas chambers. I didn’t know she was pregnant again.”
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She praises her survival for timing. “On April 28th, the Nazis ran out of gas. I was born on April 29th. Hitler committed suicide on April 30th. On May 5th, the 11th American Armored Division released the camp.”
When the Americans arrived they brought food and medicine. Three weeks later, after ANKA regained strength, the US troops deported her to Prague. There, Anka meets her second husband and leaves to avoid living under communism, and eventually settles in the UK.
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“I think Merrill is my new best friend,” Clark said of Eisenhower Atwater. “It was overwhelming to meet someone who played such a crucial role in ending the war. I was pleased to meet him again in Auschwitz a few weeks ago. Everyone wanted to thank what his great grandfather did.”
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Looking back at the moral clarity exemplified by his great grandfather, Eisenhower Atwater emphasized that we are all human beings first.
“We all know what’s right from what’s wrong. Killing people is wrong, putting babies in the oven is wrong. Putting people in the gas chamber is wrong. That’s obvious,” he said.
He admitted that denial of the Holocaust is often attributed to mistrust. “It’s easy to say that something didn’t happen because it’s difficult to understand the deaths of many of those people. But it happened. The Nazi Germans killed 10,000 people a day.
“I really don’t want to talk about six million deaths over a period of five to six years,” he added. “But that’s true.”
Amelie Botbol is a freelance journalist based in Tel Aviv. Her articles have appeared in the New York Post, the National Post in Canada, and the Washington Times. Amelie can be followed at x @datreporter