Germans Tend to Holocaust Survivors in Israel; They Want to Atone and Show Different Germany

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MAALOT-TARSHIHA, Israel (AP) - Franz Feibel spent five years in Buchenwald concentration camp, helplessly watching the ashes of Jewish prisoners spew out of the crematorium smokestack.

Today, aged 93 and in a nursing home, he is cared for by Oliver Raag, a German geriatric nurse whose grandfather transported disabled Jews and other Germans to a gas chamber.

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Germans Tend to Holocaust Survivors in Israel; They Want to Atone and Show Different Germany

Raag is one of more than 100 Germans doing volunteer work in Israel at any given time to atone for the deeds of their parents and grandparents.

"The more I learned about that period in German history, the more I wanted to come here to show that there are other Germans who are not li...

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