[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 72 (Tuesday, May 18, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E993]
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 A TRIBUTE TO MR. NAT GLASS, HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR AND COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER

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                          HON. CARRIE P. MEEK

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, May 18, 1999

  Mrs. Meek of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Mr. 
Nat Glass, a survivor of the Holocaust in Poland and, today, a 
volunteer lecturer at the Holocaust Memorial in Miami Beach, Florida. 
Mr. Glass was a student in Poland when the Nazis invaded his country in 
the pre-dawn of September 1, 1939, the event which ushered in World War 
II.
  In his lectures today at the Holocaust Memorial, Mr. Glass relates 
how the Nazis created Jewish ghettos, in which the Jewish people were 
forced into labor for their invaders. In September, 1944, Mr. Glass and 
his family were packed into cattle cars and shipped to Auschwitz. 
There, he saw his mother and two sisters for the last time. Mr. Glass 
later learned that they died of starvation at the Stutthof 
concentration camp.
  Mr. Glass was sold as a slave and sent to Germany, where he worked in 
a factory. In early May 1945, the laborers were told to dig their own 
graves. As they were about to be executed, the American Army liberated 
the factory.
  Today, Mr. Nat Glass sees it as his mission to volunteer and to share 
his story of tragedy, because he has seen what hate can do.
  Mr. Speaker, it is a privilege to pay tribute to Mr. Nat Glass, a man 
who has overcome evil with good.

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