BELGRADE — Aca Singer, who lost 65 members of his family in the Holocaust, says he didn’t survive Auschwitz to die from an American bomb.

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“When the Americans bombed the death camps at the end of World War II, I was very happy,” he said, sitting in the library of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Yugoslavia, which he heads. “Then I thought, ‘Kill me if necessary, but kill the Nazis.’ And a lot of Jews died at the end from U.S. bombers, and we were not unhappy to see the bombs.”

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Source: STEVEN ERLANGER, The New York Times, nytimes.com/library/world/europe/040999kosovo-jews.html