Holocaust survivor shares story to promote change and unity

Holocaust survivor shares story to promote change and unity

Break much*hate and not enough unity.

"my friends and i were playing a little bit of soccer in the streets" in 1944, loulke wilders was just 8 years old when he was taken off the streets of germany.

"we were picked up by the ss and kostovo, and my camp was buchenwalde" for two years - wilders and other children served as experimental subjects for medical procedures at nazi concentration camps.

"they were very sadistic, very sadistic."

And at 84 years old, he can still remember some of the horrfic experiments.

"they brought me in the lab and they had a kind of light, ultra violet.

They burned the hell out of my face.

I cried, i screamed, i kicked."

The torture wilders experienced continues to affect his health, like hearing to this day.

"big bomb sounds, and high sounds.

They put things on our ears.

They make those sounds and after three days, my ears were whistling.

From that time on, they probably damaged my nerve.

I cannot hear very good anymore.

He was given injections of mysterious serums. he was beaten to the point of broken bones.

But wilder belives what was even worse than the experiements and torture, "the most terrible thing that i can remember is that we were so hungry."

(bridge) lolke wilder endured and lived through some of the darkest horrors of the holocaust.

With the world being in such an uncertain time, he feels the last thing we need is all this hate.

"we have to heal right now, there is so much hate against each other."

Last week, wilders and his friends held a small rally in west eugene.

The goal was to urge unity, not division.

"we can make things so much better and that is my wish."

By reminding us of the horrors, he hopes todays children wont face them like he did.

Reporting in eugene, kate rogerson