Sid Shafner, 94 years old, was one of the first American soldiers on the scene at the Dachau concentration camp in 1945. He was one of the faces that meant salvation for the thousands of oppressed Jewish people still clinging to life at the camp.
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One of those people was Marcel Levy, who is now 90 years old.
On an Israeli military base this week, the two men were reunited for the first time in decades.
“I’ve been in touch with him all these years,” Shafner told reporters at the meeting. “Through postcards, greeting cards, and now email on the computer.”
“You know, everything that I have today is because of you,” Levy tearfully told Shafner. “You saved my life. Because you had the patience to speak to me, to talk to me.”
But the humble World War II veteran who hails from Denver told Marcel Levy: “Don’t praise me … If it wasn’t me, it would have been someone else.”
The trip to the Israeli military base was organized by FIDF, a non-profit organization that supports Israeli troops.
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