![Dave Sachs and Grandpa John Sachs](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2021/09/Dave-Sachs-and-his-Grandpa-scaled.jpg)
John Sachs survived the Holocaust, then came to the United States, joined the Army and went back to Europe to fight the Nazis who killed his parents. Sachs was a member of the the elite and experimental 10th Mountain Division-- the skiing & climbing soldiers of World War II. John's grandson David, a former Denverite reporter, shares a 1996 interview his late grandfather gave as part of a Holocaust remembrance project.