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11. Liberation of the Death Campus

February 29, 1945 My name is Alva Adams. I am Jewish, and a proud one of that. But because of my religion and ethnicity, I have been through Hell on Earth.Originally, I’m from Poznan, a city in western Poland. It was a great city; I grew up there and received a high school education in the city. After school, I didn’t immediately find a job, but I did in fact find love! I was soon to be married, but one night while out dancing on my twentieth birthday, my husband and I were taken away by SS soldiers, who threw us in the back of large trucks and took us to a train station where we were soon to be on our way to a death camp. These are the days. These are the days I've been longing for. Living the life I've been living for the past eleven years has been complete torture. I was imprisoned in Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration camp for three long, unbearable years. I made it through death camp. In 1943, concentration camps were still being "upgraded" with new accessories; for example gas chamber and a crematory for the mass killing of Jews, Gypsies, and other captured prisoners. Also, during 1942-1944, hundreds of subcamps were established for each concentration camp. Subcamps were located in or nea factories or sites for the extraction of raw materials. (Concentration Camps, 1942-1945, 1) Auschwitz was liberated on January 27, 1945 by Soviet Union Soldiers. It was certainly a day to remember! By the time it was liberated, other camps had also been broken down and prisoners were set free. Allies in Europe were the soldiers with the plan to invade and liberate areas in the continent. (Danzer, 573). While Soviet troops drew near a death camp called Majdanek in Poland. The SS guards worked feverishly to bury and burn all evidence of their hideous crimes.On October 26, 1944, Canadian forces liberated the abandoned Vught concentration camp in the Netherlands. On April 29, 1945, American forces liberated Dachau, the first concentration camp built in 1933.(Abzug, page 1). When soldiers liberated these camps, they would clear the large areas and make sure the camps were completely liquidated. Through these checks, the soldiers discovered hundreds, maybe thousands of dead corpses through out the camp site. They would also find chambers full of personal belongings, such as shoes, clothes, jewelry; things of that nature. When they walked through barracks, the odor of dead, rotting bodies filled the air. Soldiers spotted clumps of hair, and other things the human body produced. They found thousands of starving prisoners barely alive! It was unfortunate, but i would say the worst had come to an end. I hope to god i will never have to go through such hard ships again. I assume my fiance was murdered, for I have not been able to locate him, or find any traces of him. I'm now in this world all alone, but there's nothing i can do but move forward. I will try to make the best of my life from this day forward.

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(Glossary words: Auschwitz, barrack,Majdanek,Dachau)

Work Cited Abzug, Robert H. "Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps 1933-1945". 1999. 23 Oct. 2007. <[|http://history.sandiego.edu/GEN/WW2Timeline/camps.html>.] "Concentration Camps- 1942-1945". __United States Holocaust Memorial Museum__. 2007. 23, Oct. 2007.<[|http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005475>.] Danzer, Gerald A. __The Americans__. Evanston, Illinois. Houghton Mifflin Company:

The Italian Campaign and the "Bloody Anzio"

My name is James Buckingham and I am a soldier for the United States Army. I have formed many friendships but no further than that. I am 30 years old and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Even before we won the battle in North Africa, Roosevelt, Churchill, and their commanders met in Casblanca for an important meeting. (Danzer 573) The two leaders agreed to accept the surrender of the Axis powers. This meant the enemy nations would have to accept whatever terms of peace the Allies dictated. The two leaders also discussed where to strike next. The Americans argued that the best approach to victory was to assemble a massive invasion fleet in Britain and to launch it across the English Channel, through France, and into the heart of Germany. ( Italian Campaign of World War II 1). Churchill, however, thought it would be safer to first attack Italy. Churchill and Roosevelt went with this thought and decided to attack Italy! The Allies wanted to establish a position in Italy so they could attack the German territories and resources. Churchill figured the smartest place to land this invasion was at Anzio. With the wishes of Winston Churchill, the Allied soldiers attacked and the casualties were enormous. The battle was soon known as “the Bloody Anzio because of the mass amount of men that died. Over 200,000 men from both sides suffered death during over the four months this battle took place. The win at the end of those four months was triumphant! The Allies took another win. (Churchill and the Italian Campaign 1)

picture: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/files/images/stories/italy/italy-011.jpg

Work Cited: Danzer, Gerald A. __The Americans__. Evanston, Illinois. Houghton Mifflin Company: "The Italian Campaign of World War 2" 2005. 23 Oct. 2007. <[|http://members.aol.com/ItalyWW2/History.htm>.]
 * Chamberlain Jr., Ward B."Churchill and the Italian Campaign**". 1991. 23 October 2007. <[|http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=597>__.__]