Veterans Day.
Nov. 11th, 2008 12:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ldhensonJust a tiny fraction of the countless human stories out there.
Anthony Acevedo's experience as a POW at the Nazi concentration camp at Berga am Elster. He survived to see the camp liberated on April 23, 1945. He speaks not only of the horrors suffered by himself and other prisoners at the camp, but also of the unexpected developments after his liberation: the mandatory signed agreement that he should never tell of his experiences, and the unfathomable reaction of his own father.
William J. Shapiro's experience as a POW in the same camp. His account goes into much greater detail about what happened at the camps themselves, the slave labor and the death march, the reaction of the American soldiers to news of FDR's death.
To quote an unnamed man in the first article, at a recent gathering of WWII POWs and their liberators: The people that are in this room really are an endangered species. When they're gone, they're gone...That is why they should be honored and put in history for generations to come, because there are not that many of them left.
Anthony Acevedo's experience as a POW at the Nazi concentration camp at Berga am Elster. He survived to see the camp liberated on April 23, 1945. He speaks not only of the horrors suffered by himself and other prisoners at the camp, but also of the unexpected developments after his liberation: the mandatory signed agreement that he should never tell of his experiences, and the unfathomable reaction of his own father.
William J. Shapiro's experience as a POW in the same camp. His account goes into much greater detail about what happened at the camps themselves, the slave labor and the death march, the reaction of the American soldiers to news of FDR's death.
To quote an unnamed man in the first article, at a recent gathering of WWII POWs and their liberators: The people that are in this room really are an endangered species. When they're gone, they're gone...That is why they should be honored and put in history for generations to come, because there are not that many of them left.
