“His mother and all three siblings passed away at Auschwitz. “Unfortunately, my grandfather was the only one in his direct family who survived,” Alter said. He was taken to the largest concentration and extermination camp-Auschwitz-Birkenau, where more than 1.1 million men, women and children were killed. So he is the main person I'm dedicating this to.”ĭuring his hour-long presentation, Alter shared the historical background leading up to the Holocaust, as well as stories of concentration camps, killing centers and the liberation of persecuted Jews and others who were deemed at that time by Nazis as “undesirable.” According to numbers Alter presented from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, approximately 17 million people were killed during the Holocaust-including Jews, Soviet prisoners of war, Germans with mental and physical disabilities, political opponents of the Nazi party and so many more.Īlter’s paternal grandfather, Herbert Alter, was 16 years old when he was initially taken by the Nazis in April 1944 during the Jewish holiday of Passover. “My grandfather survived, and if it weren’t for him surviving, I wouldn’t be here. Some survived, but many passed away,” Alter explained. “I’m Jewish, and several of my relatives were part of the Holocaust. Ross Alter, a research meteorologist in the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, spoke to more than 100 ERDC employees who signed on for his online talk, “The Holocaust: What was it, why did it happen, and… why should I care?” Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) and the grandson of a Holocaust survivor spoke at a virtual event April 8 to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day. VICKSBURG, Miss.- An employee with the U.S.
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