George Ciampa
George Ciampa
George Ciampa is an Army veteran of five campaigns in Europe during WW II. He was with the 607th Graves Registration Company. At the age of eighteen, weighing 115 pounds, he landed in Normandy , France on D-Day and also served in the Battle of the Bulge. Duties of the 607th were to gather the dead from battle areas, during hostilities, and bury them in quickly planned temporary cemeteries.
Over sixty-three years later at the age of eighty-one and again at age eighty-two, Ciampa returned to Belgium and France with young high school history teachers, combat veterans and a film company to produce documentaries called “Let Freedom Ring: The Lesson is Priceless” and “Let Freedom Ring: Memories of France.” The teachers received an opportunity to interact with citizens and freedom fighters who survived the brutality of Nazi occupation and the war. They also heard the experiences of veterans who served there.
Ciampa’s mission is to reach students through their teachers who will be equipped with lesson plans and DVDs that reveal the horror stories told by the oppressed citizens of occupied countries as well as stories from the veterans …who were not much older than they when they served.
Official GIFF Selection: Let Freedom Ring: The Lesson is Priceless
