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Article: WWII vet finally ready to share his war stories.(Neighbor)(Glen Ellyn)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- May 5, 2006
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Byline: Beth Wood
At the end of World War II, Abner Ganet came home to the Chicago area, married, ran his own business, raised four children and remained silent about what he saw and experienced during the war.
In 1995, he met Elie Wiesel at an Elmhurst College Educational Program on the Holocaust. Wiesel had been 14 and scheduled to die in Buchwald on April 11, 1945, the day Ganet and his 26th Infantry Regiment liberated the camp.
Wiesel had devoted his life to all peoples who are persecuted, and wrote his memoirs, "La Nuit" or "Night." Among the numerous awards he received was a Nobel Peace Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.