Monday, March 17, 2008

Three great stories

Days after part of the Dachau concentration camp was recreated in Taunton by Hollywood director Martin Scorsese for scenes in his upcoming film “Ashecliffe,” Israel Geller of Canton man recounts the time he spent there as a young man.
See the article here.

Here, A World War II veteran from Halifax survived the front lines, but says the scenes at the concentration camp were “the hardest to deal with.” Roy MacDonald, 82, was among the U.S. soldiers who liberated the German concentration camp.


Finally, Jim Shiels was with armored battalion that knocked down the wire fence to liberate the Nazi concentration camp. Shiels, then 19, was among soldiers in the 19th Armored Infantry Battalion, Combat Command C, 14th Armored Division.