On May 2, 1942, Rena Kornreich and her sister Danka were liberated by the 82nd Airborne. After three years and 41 days in the Nazi death camps, Rena thought the American soldiers looked like angels and indeed they were angels.

The 82nd Airborne was made up of brave men and among the first divisions to paratroop into occupied France. They fought a record “33 days of bloody combat” after allied forces invaded the coast of Normandy on D-Day. It would take ten months for them to reach the interior of Germany, but on May 2, 1945, they liberated two concentration camps: Wöbbelin and Neüstadt Glewe. Rena Kornreich was in the latter.

Wöbbelin was an appalling sight with a mound of one-thousand men who had died of starvation. Disgusted, the officers ordered the townspeople of Ludwigslust to walk through the camp and see the horror. Then they forced them to bury the dead. General Dwight D. Eisenhower had mandated "all atrocity victims to be buried in a public place." In accordance with that policy, the 82nd Airborne made sure that crosses honored Christian graves and the Stars of David honored Jewish graves.

For those committed to believing the Holocaust never happened remember that you negate the experience and reports of our own troops. Always Believe. Never Forget. Rena's best-selling memoir is Rena's Promise: [ Ссылка ]

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