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In September, 1939, George Lucius Salton's boyhood in Tyczyn, Poland, was shattered by escalating violence and terror under German occupation. His father, an attorney, was forbidden to work, but 11-year-old George dug potatoes, divide lumber, and resourcefully helped his family. They suffered food cravings and deprivation, a obligated march to the Rzeszow ghetto, then eternal separation when 14-year-old George and his sibling were left out to labor in work camps while their parents were deported in boxcars to expire in Belzec. For another three years, George slaved and barely survived in 10 attention camps, including Rzeszow, Plaszow, Flossenburg, Colmar, Sachsenhausen, Braunschweig, Ravensbrck, and Wobbelin. Cattle automobiles filled with skeletal men emptied into a teach yard in Colmar, France. George and the other prisoners marched under the whips and fists of SS guards. But here, unlike the taunts and stones from villagers in Poland and Germany, there was applause. "I could clearly hear individuals dialling: 'Pity! Shame!'... Instantly, I became aware that the people of Colmar were applauding us! They were condemning the inhumanity of the Germans!" Of the 500 prisoners of the Nazis who marched through the streets of Colmar in the springtime of 1944, just 50 were alive one year later when the U.S. Military 82nd Airborne Department liberated the Wobbelin attention camp on the evening of May 2, 1945. "I noticed something stir deep in my soul. It had been my true do it yourself, the main one who had stayed deep within and had not forgotten how to love as well as how to cry, the main one who acquired chosen life and was still standing up when the previous roll call ended."
