Question

name
from the diary of waclaw glouszek
\liberation???
today, april 3, at 3 pm, on the road to bergen, we saw the first armored reconnaissance of
the english army. we were overjoyed. who was still alive and could still walk, was running to
the fence to welcome the army that liberated us from the cruel hands of the germans. some
were climbing on the roofs and were greeting our saviors from there. our joy was
indescribable. we couldnt speak for joy, but a handshake said it all and the eyes were
brimming with tears. we couldnt stop talking that day. everyone was expecting and was fully
convinced that our torment has come to end and the bright future has come. alas, our joy
was premature. we were hoping that our slavery, our worries about the future were gone,
that the longed - for freedom was finally here and then soon we will come back to our country
or join our army. these were our dreams, desired and cherished for a long time and they
turned to dust. we were deceived thinking that the conditions we lived in would change any
day but they still persist. how long will they persist is the question that is difficult to
answer - will it last a while will it stay. this is how it looked when the english army came.
hearing that the english were coming, everyone rushed to the fence and saw...the hungarians,
the army that allied itself with the germans, standing guard and refused to allow us to get to
the fence. we were about 30 m from the road. we were cheering, our joy had no bounds, we
were welcoming the english, some were crying, the others were thanking god for giving them
the strength to survive and pray for further gods grace.
suddenly we hear a shot, another shot - the hungarians are chasing us away from the fence,
by force, using rifles. the moment was beyond sad - on the day of liberation, on the day of
immense joy for which we had been waiting so long, being tortured, abused, tormented for so
many years, uncertain whether we would live and now... it turned out that some people were
injured and dead by the hungarian shots.\

1. what did the prisoners hope would happen once they were liberated?

1. explain the phrase \we were deceived thinking that the conditions we lived in would

change any day but they still persist\ in your own words.

Explanation:

Question 1

To answer this, we refer to the diary text. The relevant sentence is: "We were hoping that our slavery, our worries about the future were gone, that the longed - for freedom was finally here and then soon we will come back to our country or join our army." So we extract the prisoners' hopes from this sentence.

First, we understand the context. The prisoners thought that with liberation, their harsh living conditions would improve or end. But the phrase shows that this expectation was wrong. "We were deceived" means their belief was wrong. "thinking that the conditions we lived in would change any day" is their expectation of improvement in living conditions. "but they still persist" means the bad conditions continued. So we rephrase this idea in our own words.

Answer:

The prisoners hoped that their slavery would end, their worries about the future would disappear, they would gain the longed - for freedom, and soon they would either return to their country or join their army.

Question 2