For the Record

From the May 7 story "Holocaust survivor speaks of concentration camps," several corrections need to be made.

Sol Lurie spent four years in various concentration camps, from June 1941 to April 1945.

As his family was trying to escape the impending war and headed toward the Russian border, they took a rest, and German soldiers were already in town and ordered them into a synagogue for three days. The Jews were ordered back to where they came from and anyone left inside the synagogue was burned to death.

Once inside the initial concentration camp, prisoners were fed 1 pound, 8 ounces of bread a week.

In October 1941, people were taken from the ghetto and ordered to march to a fort.

One time when Lurie's father tried to save Lurie, his cousin and his cousin's baby, he hid them in a hole underground. German soldiers arrived as Lurie's cousin was getting fresh air because she suffered from asthma, but because the baby got scared and started crying, the Germans decided to kill the 7- month-old.

In December 1944, during a "death march" and only 23 of the 131 boys who came to Auschwitz survived.

In April 1945, Lurie heard tanks approaching his location but did not know for sure that they were American.

In 1952, Lurie's aunt in America gave him a good luck charm when he deployed with the Army overseas, which he lost in Germany. A year later, during the Cold War in Germany, he laid his sleeping bag down and felt something hard, at which point he pulled out a tree branch that had the charm on it.