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Concentration camp survivors reflect on Obama's visit

Werner Reich, 81, of Smithtown, a retired industrial engineer who was in multiple death camps from 1943 to 1945, including two stints in Auschwitz.

"The problem is people are visiting concentration camps and they really are not visiting the concentration camps. The concentration camps are gone. The smell, the bodies, the fear, the sweat, the urine, the feces, all that stuff is gone. The only...

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