Holocaust survivors who witnessed the Cap Arcona bombing share their stories

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Holocaust survivors who witnessed the Cap Arcona bombing share their stories
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Thousands died during World War II when British war planes mistakenly struck a Nazi ship packed with concentration camp prisoners. Holocaust survivors and families of victims want the world to remember what happened on the Cap Arcona.

During the Holocaust , Manfred Goldberg survived confinement in the Riga, Latvia ghetto and four concentration camps before he witnessed a bombing in Germany that took the lives of thousands of prisoners. On May 3, 1945, just days before the end of World War II in Europe, British Royal Air Force planes mistakenly attacked the Cap Arcona ocean liner in Lübeck Bay in the Baltic Sea. The ship was crammed with thousands of concentration camp prisoners.

Once the barges reached shore, Schwab and the Goldbergs found the strength to climb out, only to be intercepted by the SS and German troops, who shot and killed many prisoners on the spot.'And we felt practically certain that we would be shot next,' Goldberg said. 'But instead they lined us up into a column.'The Goldbergs and Schwab were taken to the nearby naval base, where they witnessed bombers fly overhead.

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