Retracing the Steps of a Concentration Camp Prisoner

Dachau was one of the most brutal places on earth. I traveled over 5000 miles to walk the path of my friend.

Dachau prisoner’s uniform. Brigade Piron, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

As a college student, I received a writing assignment to interview someone I didn’t know. So I walked up to an old man sitting in the lobby of my apartment building and asked if we could chat.