With Obama visiting Yad Vashem in Israel (and meeting with Netanyahu and Peres and Barak and Olmert and Lipni and Abbas.....) his great uncle Charlie Payne (83), who helped liberate Buchenwald in WW II, gives an interview to AP:
"In a shed, he saw bodies stacked like cord wood. The survivors, many near starvation, were 'nothing but just skin over bones with nothing, no flesh at all.' He said the 1993 movie 'Schindler's List' was 'very good, but it didn't begin to show the desperate plight of the prisoners. I guess in real life you can't really starve people next to death in order to make a movie.' "
On Obama: "He's truly an astounding young man and always has been."
The picture is interesting:
