Encounter with liberators descendants – April 10 2026
Langenstein-Zwieberge was liberated on 12 April 1945 by US Army troops. The 20th field hospital of the 9th US Army took care of more than 1.000 survivors who were on the brink of starvation.
In 2005, Bernard Metrick, one of the doctors returned to Langenstein and Halberstadt and met with survivors. In 2026, descendants of survivors met descendants liberators to share and pass on their families memories.
The project group met with Noel March, son of liberator Leonard Marchlewski, who had worked as a medic in the 20th field hospital, Rosanne Levine, daughter of liberator Herbert Mandel, and Dorothée Martin Garde, granddaughter of survivor Raymond Soulas.
10 April 2026, the project group with Rosanne Levine, Noel March, and Dorothée Martin-Garde , © Dorothée Martin-Garde