WNET, the public television station, brought together 30 camp survivors and 40 black former solders for a 90-minute movie, "Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II," that deals with the experiences of the soldiers in the 761st Tank Battalion and 183d Combat Engineers and the liberation of Buchenwald and Dachau.

The men's faces, lined by the years in between the event that linked them, were taped by a video camera for use in the movie, which is scheduled for broadcast next year.

Each man merely spoke his name. For many of the friends and relatives watching, that simple act, reaffirmed a connection between two oppressed minority groups that have seen a rift grow between them in recent years. Remembers Soldiers Crying

Mr. Bender had a prepared account to read of April 11, 1945, the day of liberation, that also spoke to the issue of the estrangement between blacks and Jews. "We have to rise above hatred and narrow-mindedness, to lift our spirit to the glorious day of April 11, 1945, where brotherhood, love, heroism and sacrifice prevailed," the statement read. Just as black soldiers extended their hands to dying Jews, he said, "now the living Jews and black people have to join their hands to make our common dream a reality."

But when he stood to speak, he threw the speech away as the memories flooded in.

The soldiers that day were crying, he said, and he did not understand. "I could not understand why people wielding arms and steel would have tears in their eyes.