Free talk on Dachau Concentration Camp and its liberation on 26 April at NYS Military Museum

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42nd Infantry Division officers coordinate the surrender of the Dachau Concentration Camp on April 29, 1945.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK (04/17/2025) (readMedia)-- The experience of being imprisoned in the infamous Dachau Concentration Camp and the camp's liberation by the United States Army on April 29, 1945, will be the subjects of a free talk at the New York State Military Museum in Saratoga Springs on Saturday, April 26.

The program starts at 2 p.m. and is sponsored by the Friends of the New York State Military Museum and the Jewish War Veterans of the United States.

Evelyn Loeb, a Delmar resident, whose father Walter Loeb, was arrested following Kristallnacht and detained at Dachau in November 1938 will discuss her father's experience at Dachau.

Walter Loeb was released in the late winter of 1939, and obtained passage to the United States in 1940. He would go on to serve in the U.S. armed forces in the Pacific theater during World War II.

He passed away in 2009.

Retired New York Army National Guard Col. Richard Goldenberg will discussion the 42nd Infantry Division's role in the liberation of the prison . He will discuss the division's advance across Germany and the details of the liberation.

The 42nd Infantry Division was dubbed the "Rainbow Division" in World War I because it was made up of National Guard units from across the country. In World War II it was made up of draftees.

Today the division is part of the New York Army National Guard. Goldenberg served as the division's public affairs officer for many years, including its 2005 deployment to Iraq.

The New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center is located at 61 Lake Avenue in Saratoga Springs. The museum is maintained by the New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs with the mission of telling the story of New Yorkers in our nation's conflicts.