(From KGCS)International Holocaust Remembrance Day is recognized on January 27. It was on that day in 1945 that Ukranian troops liberated the prisoners of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Stories of surviving the holocaust and Nazism include one with a tie to Joplin. Fred and Henry Taucher were boys in Berlin when Adolph Hitler came to power. Their parents were killed, and they became orphans, but they were able to survive and escape to live with cousins in Joplin.
This week on Newsmakers, we learn their harrowing story from Mary Anne Phillips, secretary of Historic Murphysburg Preservation and Dr. Paul Teverow with the United Hebrew Congregation.
The Taucher brothers’ experiences are detailed in a book titled, Saved by the Enemy by Craig Ledbetter. Viewers will learn how women involved in the Nazi Party in Berlin helped the boys. In addition, we discuss the importance of education about the holocaust.
The show is airing nightly at 5 and 9 p.m. the week of January 21 and will be broadcast at 5:30 a.m. on Saturday, January 27, on KOAM-TV. It is also posted on the station’s YouTube channel – KGCS Missouri Southern.
KCGS programming can be seen on channel 21 and is also available on regional cable television systems such as Sparklight, Mediacom and Suddenlink Communications. The station operates as a service of the Department of Communications at Missouri Southern State University.
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