(Independent-UK) Ed Mosberg still has his concentration camp uniform. His teenage years were spent in the Krakow ghetto, then the nearby Plaszow concentration camp, then as a slave laborer in the Mauthausen-Gusen camp in Austria, and finally the Hermann Goering factory in Linz. On 5 May 1945, with their Nazi captors on the point of defeat, he and his fellow slaves were ordered into dynamited caves. They lived because the dynamite failed. Mosberg's family of 16 had already been murdered. The opening scene of a new Holocaust documentary, "Destination Unknown," shows Mosberg in uniform in 2015, back at Mauthausen for the 70th anniversary of the camp's liberation. Mosberg is 92 now. At Plaszow he saw the notorious, sadistic commandant Amon Goth. "Amon Goth, I worked in his office, so I saw what he was doing. He did this for pleasure. To take dogs, and let the dogs rip up the people. He stood and was shooting people from the balconies. When he was walking through the camp, you knew that somebody would get killed." Goth was put on trial, then hanged by the Allies. "I saw killing all the time. When they liquidated the ghetto. How they were beating people, shooting them, I was there. I saw it." The Holocaust may seem like it could fade into history. But not while Ed Mosberg remembers.
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