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One of the ‘Black Angels:’ My Father, A Soldier and Liberator of Buchenwald Concentration Camp

Trustees Pavilion (PAV 3) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

Ms. Sampson-Jefferson will share the story of how her father, Otto Sampson Sr., an African-American G.I. in the all-black 380th Quartermaster Company of the U.S. 4th Armored Division, came to be one of the liberators of Buchenwald Concentration Camp. on April 11, 1945. Her presentation will include excerpts from a 1999 interview that she conducted […]