{"id":190608,"date":"2025-12-18T04:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/190608\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T04:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T04:40:07","slug":"holocaust-survivor-joe-szwarcberg-on-liberation-and-telling-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/190608\/","title":{"rendered":"Holocaust survivor Joe Szwarcberg on liberation and telling the truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eighty years ago on 11 April 1945, American soldiers marched into Buchenwald concentration camp and liberated the people they found there, including 14-year-old Joe Szwarcberg.<\/p>\n<p>Joe had endured years of starvation and forced labour before ultimately rebuilding a new life in Australia alongside other young survivors. Together they became known as the Buchenwald Boys.<\/p>\n<p>In this special episode of Soul Search made with the Melbourne Holocaust Museum and ABC Education, we hear Joe&#8217;s story of endurance, friendship and survival.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/listen\/programs\/soul-search\/holocaust-survivor-joe-szwarcberg\/105199126\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This episode originally aired on 11 May 2025.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Links<\/p>\n<p>More from ABC Religion and Ethics \/ ABC Education\u2019s Week with Students<\/p>\n<p>Further listening on the aftermath of the Holocaust<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eighty years ago on 11 April 1945, American soldiers marched into Buchenwald concentration camp and liberated the people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[109359,109360,146,41093,1898,85,46,109358,109357],"class_list":["post-190608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-buchenwald","tag-buchenwald-boys","tag-entertainment","tag-hate-crimes","tag-holocaust","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-joe-szwarcberg","tag-melbourne-holocaust-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}