Alan Moskin

Alan Moskin (1926–2024) was a U.S. Army infantryman who fought in the final months of World War II in Europe and witnessed one of the war's most horrifying scenes — the liberation of Gunskirchen Lager, a sub-camp of Mauthausen, in May 1945. At just 18 years old, he walked into a camp holding thousands of starving Hungarian Jewish prisoners and saw the worst of what human beings can do to one another. That experience defined the rest of Alan's life. For over two decades he couldn't speak about what he saw, but once he started, he never stopped. He spoke to hundreds of thousands of students across the New York area, recorded a 3.5-hour testimony for USC Shoah Foundation, and participated in the Dimensions in Testimony project to preserve his witness for future generations. Alan dedicated his final years to ensuring that the Holocaust would never be forgotten, warning that denial will 'come out of the woodwork' when the last witnesses are gone.