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Description
Mr. Edwards shares an emotional story of the feeling he had knowing he would soon be free.
Transcription
Well, I think first of all, when you’re taken there’s a lot of sadness and then you just grow into it kind of deal. You have to live there, you know it, so you learn to guide your life each day. It wasn’t all that bad but it’s… of course you don’t wanna be there. That’s the answer right there. You don’t wanna be there.
Interviewer: And three years is such a long time. (It is so, ya.) Tell us about the day you were told you were gonna be set free.
That was something else. To my remembrance, I wasn’t even with the Germans when the war ended. I had already escaped and got to the Russian front, just in Poland, you know, where we lived with them. There was three of us – another Canadian, an American and myself. And we lived there for quite a while, maybe 20 days, and so the end of the war was coming then anyway.