Liberation

Scenes of horror and carnage - mountains of bodies awaiting cremation - met the eye at every turn.� Pyres of wood and bodies remained unlit as the fleeing Nazis abandoned their attempts to cover up the atrocities they had committed.

And thousands of camp inmates, in a state of living death from starvation and disease, needed immediate care.� Alas, that care was too late in coming for too many.� Interred in the same camps they had suffered in, sometimes seemingly the only difference being the language of their jailors, they awaited their fate in the new world order.

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VISITORS COMMENTS: 11

(1) Makayla Allen 11/30/2007 3:59:00 PM

im in the 10th grade and we also just read the book, "Night." this book touched many people in my call while we read it. We thought, how could something so terrible happen to "GODS PEOPLE"

(2) Danika McCray 5/18/2006
what a tragedy.
in my tenth grade class i read a book called night and that was a touching story also i went to the museum of tolerence i learned alot about the holocaust. which that was really sad and i had the chance of meeting a survivor and she is still living to the age of about 90 something

(3) Anonymous 2/20/2006

Anyone who didn't believe this hatred and all that was done in WWII needs to get their head out of the sand! My father took many pictures of those liberated published in Life & Look magazines. My father was an Italian Jew from Italy and proudly served 10yrs in the Army 1943-1953. Those pics were not fake!

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