On Tuesday, May 11, 2010, a special event with the participation of �Buchenwald Children� and Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council, who survived Buchenwald,� will be held to mark the Hebrew publication of �Saving Children: Diary of a Buchenwald Survivor and Rescuer� by the late Jack Werber (published by Yad Vashem).

In the summer of 1944, some 600 children aged 6-16 arrived in Buchenwald.� The children were sent to various blocks, in particular block 66.� On April 11, 1945 the camp was liberated by the US Army.� Some 21,000 prisoners, among them 4,000 Jews remained in the camp.� Most of the �Buchenwald Children� survived.� After the liberation, they built new lives and families.� Dozens of them will come to Yad Vashem for a special meeting.� The author of the book, the late Jack Werber, was a Jewish prisoner who risked his life to rescue the children.

Werber was a prisoner of Buchenwald for five and half years, and was active in the international underground in the camp.� Together with other Jewish prisoners and members of the underground, they worked to save the children of the camp.

(Yad Vashem)