I am sharing a story about my dad, a 93-year-old World War II veteran now living in Canada.
In February 1945 his U.S. Army artillery battalion was charged with marching on Germany and destroying various targets. One of the targets was a factory in Essen, where Eva Olsson worked as a slave laborer.
Eva and her family were taken to Auschwitz. She and her sister were the only ones to survive the death camps, and later both were moved to to the slave labor camp near Essen.
Allied bombing raids were familiar to Olsson; yet when Dad's battalion leveled the factory where Eva was working, she was one of only a few survivors.
Fast-forward to the end of the war, when Dad returned to New York City. After my mom died, he later married a Canadian woman and relocated to the Muskoka region of Canada. She and Dad attended a book signing and ran into Eva, who had written a book about her experiences in Germany. My dad, ever the conversationalist, started talking to Eva, and they discoved that it was his battalion that leveled the factory in which she was working.
"So you're the guy who almost killed us," said Eva.
Dad said the discussion made the hairs on the back of his neck stand up.
See below for a story that recently ran in the local paper in Muskoka.
It's a great human interest story. Dad is 93. Eva is 91. They traveled many miles to meet up and tell each other their story.

http://www.muskokaregion.com/news-story/6241020-holocaust-survivor-recon...