| Triumph Over a Tragic Trilogy
“And the black holocaust survivors despair over the fact that much has been documented about Jews, Homosexuals and Gypsies, but little or nothing has been done about their own situation.”—Anonymous, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
For the first time ever in a book, three different Blacks tell stories of their intimate involvement with the Holocaust, all from a Black perspective. One is an actual Black holocaust survivor from Dachau. One was a commander with the U.S. Army unit that liberated Dachau. And one was with the medical corps that went in to clean up the dead bodies at Dachau:
“You cannot possibly comprehend the anger I have in me because of being experimented on in Dachau, and being called ‘nigger girl’ and ‘blacky’ while growing up.”—“Kay,” a Black female Holocaust Survivor.
‘Once we got to Dachau we were in for the shock of our lives. Aside from the horror that was beyond description, we were completely surprised to see 8,000 half-breed Germans and Blacks from World War I! They looked at us and we stared back at them. We just stared at one another in disbelief.’—Lieutenant Colonel Emmett Simmons, an African American Commander in the United Stated Army.
“The role of my all Black unit in the aftermath of the Holocaust was to retrieve all the piles of dead bodies in Dachau, and give them a decent burial. … The white medics were held back as we were sent in to get these disease-ridden, rotting bodies.—Medic Jerome Fisher, an African American with the 37th Medical Division.
If you are like most people, you simply have never heard these unbelievable stories of Black survival, liberation, and rescue. You are invited to read about the human spirit’s triumph over the tragic trilogy.
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