World War II vet talks about experience as concentration camp liberator in new exhibit
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Apr 08, 2021, 7:48pm EDT
A World War II veteran from New Jersey has made it his life’s mission to educate people about what he saw as a concentration camp liberator. His story is now the subject of a new exhibit at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.
“ I am also a Jew.’ It just came out of me and of course once I said that, that was the connection with those poor souls,” says Alan Moskin.
The 95-year-old grew up in Englewood and now lives in Rockland County, New York. He recalls the first words he spoke to Nazi concentration camp survivors as he and other American troops liberated the Gunskirchen Lager camp in Austria on May 4, 1945.
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Gregory Perillo, an artist and philanthropist known as ‘Crazy Horse,’ dies two days shy of his 94th birthday
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Perillo was surrounded by family when he died, just two days shy of his 94th birthday.
Although his health had been declining over the last few months, Perillo painted each day until 10 days before his death.
Gregory and Mary Perillo
Born in Greenwich Village to Italian immigrant parents Gregorio and Antoinette Perillo, when Perillo was just 2 years old, his family relocated to Castleton Corners.
Perillo graduated from PS 29 in his home community and the school where he would eventually donate artwork, and McKee High School.
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Col. Benjamin O. Davis (left), commanding officer of the 332nd Fighter Group, and Edward C. Gleed, group operations officer, stand in front of a plane in Ramitelli, Italy, in March 1945.
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