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Wolf Blitzer Tours U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum for CNN Special
Growing up in Buff alo, CNN anchor
Wolf Blitzer always knew he was
the child of Holocaust survivors. His
parents, both Polish Jews, told him
often about their experiences surviv-
ing the concentration camps.

“I knew many children of
Holocaust survivors whose parents
didn’t speak about it,” Blitzer told the
Jewish Telegraphi Agency. “But my
parents were very open about it. I’m
grateful that they were.”
But it wasn’t until Blitzer made
his new CNN special about the U.S.

Holocaust Memorial Museum that
he discovered a video survivor tes-
timony his father, David Blitzer, had
recorded in the 1990s.

Filmed at
the Holocaust
Documentation and Education
Center in Hollywood, Florida, David
Blitzer discussed growing up in
the Polish city of Oświęcim, later
“Germanized” into Auschwitz, where
his parents were murdered. (The city
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CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer tours the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington, D.C., for a special that aired on the network on Aug. 26.

is known as Oswiecim again today.)
He shared intimate details about the
mindset of the Germans around him,
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who he said regretted that Hitler was
in power “only when they started to
lose the war,” and his belief that the
United States’ decision not to bomb
the Auschwitz death camp was a
moral failure.

David Blitzer's testimony, along
with those like other survivors
like Rita Kesselman and Irene
Salomonawicz, is featured in the
new CNN special “Never Again: The
United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum: A Tour With Wolf Blitzer,”
which aired on Aug. 26.

The hour-long special, origi-
nally intended for the now-defunct
streaming service CNN+, follows
Blitzer and current museum director
Sara Bloomfi eld as they explore
the Washington, D.C., institution and
the history lessons it off ers. The
program aired on the network less
than a week after fellow Jewish
CNN correspondent Dana Bash’s
own special on antisemitism in the
United States. It will subsequently
be available on CNN’s digital
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