"“I sleep with it, I wake up with it, I sweat, I have nightmares, that is my present.” He said he worried what would happen when he was no longer around to bear witness. “When my generation is not in this world any more, when we disappear from the world, then the next generation can only read it out of the book.”"
"Weinberg survived incarceration at the Auschwitz, Mittelbau-Dora and Bergen-Belsen camps as well as three death marches at the end of the second world war. He spent years teaching high school students and others about the horrors he had to live through."
"Since returning from New York to his east Frisian home 14 years ago, Albrecht recounted tirelessly and with incredible energy his terrible experiences during the Nazi era and warned again and again against forgetting, said Leer's mayor, Claus-Peter Horst, on Tuesday."
"Weinberg was awarded Germany's order of merit in 2017 but handed it back last year when a parliamentary vote calling for many more migrants to be turned back at Germany's borders passed with the help of a far-right party."
Albrecht Weinberg, born in 1925 near Leer, survived Auschwitz, Mittelbau-Dora, and Bergen-Belsen and endured three death marches at the end of World War II. After the war, he taught high school students and others about the horrors he experienced. He returned to his East Frisian home in his later years and continued recounting his experiences with energy, warning repeatedly against forgetting. His memories remained vivid, causing sleep disruption, sweating, nightmares, and ongoing distress. He feared that without living witnesses, later generations would rely only on books. He received Germany’s order of merit in 2017 and returned it after a vote supporting turning back many migrants at the border. He was honored as a bridge between past pain and present hope.
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