The Livingston Public Schools Social Studies
Department Lecture Series presents Alan Moskin on "Remembrances
of a Concentration Camp Liberator: The Indescribable Horrors
I Experienced at Gunskirchen" on Monday, December 8 from
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm The cost is free and this lecture is open to
the public.
Alan Moskin participated in the liberation
of Gunskirchen concentration camp, a sub-camp of Mauthausen,
as an eighteen-year-old soldier.
Alan Moskin was born in Englewood, NJ on May 30, 1926. He
was drafted
into the military services at the age of 18 and served in the
US Army during World War II from September 1944 until August
1946.
He was a member of the 66th Infantry, 71st Division (part of
General
George Patton's 3rd Army). Mr. Moskin's unit fought in combat
in France, Germany and Austria.
In May 1945, his Company participated in the liberation of Gunskirchen
Concentration Camp.
Mr. Moskin attended Syracuse University as
an
undergraduate and received his Juris Doctorate from
New York
University of Law.
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