World War II veteran recalls liberating Buchenwald death camp
Albert Goldberg, a member of the Greatest Generation, said the years have quickly flown by since he saw combat in World War II 70 years ago. βIt seems like yesterday to me,β the Brighton Beach resident said.
βI joined the service at 19. At 20, I was shooting Germans,β Goldberg, a US Army veteran, told the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in an interview on Tuesday. βI was a machine gunner,β he said, matter-of-factly.
His army unit was one of the first to enter Buchenwald, the infamous death camp in Germany. “You forget a lot of things over the years, but you never forget something like that,” he said, recalling the emaciated bodies, the barbed wire, and the smell of death that hung in the air.