Mike Levin: “This morning Samuel Pisar, a distinguished survivor of the Nazi death camps at Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, Leonberg, and…”

“This morning Samuel Pisar, a distinguished survivor of the Nazi death camps at Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, Leonberg, and Dachau delivered the keynote address at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's commemoration of the 50th anniversary of V-E Day. I was very moved by Mr. Pisar's expression of gratitude to his liberators, the U.S. Army. He recounted his first words to the GI in the American tank which rescued him, ``I . . . summoned the few English words my mother used to sigh while dreaming of our deliverance, and yelled: `God Bless America!''' That gratitude, in Mr. Pisar's words, ``as intense as it was 50 years ago,'' serves to remind us all of the role which America has and continues today to play in the world as a beacon of hope for oppressed people.”