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Vice President Mike Pence and Family Visit Concentration Camps in Germany

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By Faithwire Staff
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February 20, 2017

Vice President Mike Pence and his family visited a Nazi concentration camp near Munich, Germany over the President’s Day Weekend.

Pence, along with second lady Karen pence and eldest daughter Charlotte, toured the concentration camp near Munich with a survivor of the camp, Abba Naor, and director of the Foundation of the Bavarian Memorial Sites, Karl Freller.

Moving and emotional tour of Dachau today. We can never forget atrocities against Jews and others in the Holocaust. pic.twitter.com/69GWN2DKDF

— Vice President Pence (@VP) February 19, 2017

The Pences toured various areas in the camp, named Dachau, including the prison yard, ABC News reported.

Credit: The Associated Press

Naor, a Jewish Lithuanian who now lives in Israel, spoke to Pence about the living conditions at Dachau, which opened in March 1933 and was liberated by American forces in April 1945.

“One morning they came,” Naor said of the American troops, describing them as “strange faces.”

During the tour today of Dachau, survivor Abba Noar recalled to me the horrors of the Holocaust, "then the American troops came." pic.twitter.com/WuVo7Jtk3L

— Vice President Pence (@VP) February 19, 2017

Pence and Karen placed a wreath made of white flowers on the front of a stone wall denoting the dates of the camp’s operation. They then stood there for a moment of silence.

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The vice president and second lady also visited the Jewish Memorial on site, which is built from basalt lava and features and sloping ramp down to an underground prayer room.

Credit: The Associated Press

The number of prisoners incarcerated in Dachau between 1933 and 1945 exceeded 188,000, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The number of prisoners who died in the camp between 1940 and 1945 was at least 28,000.

(H/T: ABC News)

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