Gina Rappaport (later Leitersdorf) stands next to an American tank in Farsleben, Germany, on April 13, 1945. Gina and other prisoners were liberated from a Nazi train transport from Bergen-Belsen by the US 743rd Tank Battalion and the 30th Infantry Division. She was fluent in several languages and translated for the American troops and other survivors on the train.
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