Love is a powerful thing. Not even the horrors of war or the threat of death can prevent two people who are madly in love from getting together.
Horace Greasley was one such man whose undying love for a Jewish girl he met while he was a prisoner of war in Germany caused him to risk being caught and executed on the spot just so he can meet with her every night.
According to his account, Horace escaped 200 times to meet with a girl named Rosa Rauchbach. Never once did he get caught. Later on, he would write an autobiography detailing his escapades. The title of the book is Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell?
Unfortunately, when Horace was finally freed from the prison camp, he found out that Rosa had died from childbirth, which could have been his child but he didn't know for sure. He would marry a woman named Brenda, and live out the rest of his years with her in Costa Brava, Spain.
Horace died in 2010 at the age of 91.
(Video credit: Ancestral Findings)
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