Gloria along with her mother Anna , son Neil and husband Liam fled for their lives. Many were captured, separated, raped and brutally beaten by the Nazi. It was on this day when Liam who had watched this one guard for days working alone before he mustered up courage and strength to attacked him ,tied him up and then took off his uniform to wear. He walked right out of the courtyard, were he was bound.
Liam in army uniform looked for his wife and child as he gained access to other holding camps for prisoners. Nobody demanded from him any papers as he went into the concentration camps and found his wife and son barely alive. He had lied to the other guards that Hitler himself wanted these two for questioning.
As they put his unconscious wife and son into the back of the truck, his son Neil heard his father's voice and cried out Pa.. pa.. trying to open one of his badly beaten closed eye to confirm it was his dad. The guard became suspicious and then asked , " where are your papers to release this woman and her child,?" Frantically Liam brought out his Jack knife and stabbed the Guard.
Liam jumped into the truck and sped off with blood still on his hands as his wife and child laid near death in the back. He came across a little shack in the woods where he nurtured his family back to health. His wife said " Anna didn't make it , they beat her to death and threw her body in a ditch. I couldn't stop it, I tried to stop it, when they struck me with a bat and knocked me into unconsciousness".
Liam knew they couldn't stay long at this place , He ditched the truck and all of them travelled by foot, still in the officer's uniform he thought it will deceive them as they went to cross the border.As they came near a junction he asked his family to hide in a bush. The uniform on him gave him confidence to approach and speak with the officers. Liam asked for a smoke as the guard informed him they where looking for an escape woman and child. His hands started to shake when other guards arrived. He knew he must make a mad dash from this place.
One of the guards asked him what regiment was he from He replied'' the Gestapo'', while all the guards looked at each other and laughed . One guard said ''we are all from the Gestapo''. When Liam turned to run back into the woods the Guards chased him like a mad dog and were shooting at him , all he could manage to say as he ran through the woods was R-U-N-. If his family could make it across the state line they would be safe .
Immediately his family took off and ran towards the border , they were just about to cross the state line when Neil was tackled by a guard , his mother shouted " Let go of him," as she jumped on the officer's back. Liam had heard her tormented voice and circled around to go helped them. He kicked and punched the officer's legs and face. Neil had broken away, his mother grabbed his arm to continue to run but looked back at her husband that was now fighting two officers.
Gloria told her son to wait here until she comes back. Gloria couldn't imagine her life without her husband so she ran back to help him. Picking up a stone she bashed one of the guards on the head as Neil stabbed the other. They could hear more guards approaching . She shouted " We must leave now", carrying his son on his back Liam made it close to the border . He had to stop to compose himself as he went to speak to the Officers who protect the state line. He knew he didn't have any legal documents to present but managed to get them to go inside to make a phone call.
As they went inside his wife and child crawled through a partial wooded area across the border, having seen that they were cleared and sighted they were brewing hot water on the stove to make tea or coffee. He then walked over to the kettle and flung the hot water at the officers . He jumped out of the side window and running to make it across the border, he was shot in the back.
Gloria and her son dragged him nearly a mile before someone came to help. She removed the uniform he was wearing to make it seemed like he was shot by accident when hunting for Game. Someone from town came across them and gave them a ride to the nearest doctor's office. The Hell they all went through and to lose her mother, she was praying to God that her husband will pull through. Days later Liam started to speak and held his wife's hand. He muttered these words" We Are Free."
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