Holocaust survivor to speak in York

Holocaust survivor David Tuck will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Yom HaShoah Observance at York's Jewish Community Center.

At age 9, Tuck spent was taken to the Lodz ghetto in Poland in 1940. He spent the next five years circulating from a labor camp in Posen in Poland to Auschwitz in Germany. He eventually landed in Güsen II, an underground factory to build German aircraft for the war.

He weighed only 78 pounds at th end of the war, Tuck was liberated from Güsen II on May 5, 1945. Now, almost 71 years to the day later, he's sharing his story of survival with the York area.

- Mark Fazlollah