Two More Stories, From The Jewish Side This Time

Two more stories, from the Jewish Side. Please read to the end.

http://www.chabadmineola.com/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/1506646/jewish/The-Whip-The-Siddur-A-Holocaust-Survivor-Sobering-Thought.htm

http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2011/5/2/main-feature/1/calibrating-darkness/e

Another 2 Stories Told Only That They May Not Be Lost

Let Nothing Be Lost

The Grandmother of one of my best Liceum students told me this:

She was 12 when the Germans invaded Poland. She, her brother, and her parents were to be sent to Sachenhausen concentation camp. On arrival at the local assembly point, the mother pointed out that the children, when arrested, had left their shoes at home. The German in charge (whatever he was, he was clearly not very clever) allowed the children to walk home to fetch the shoes. They walked away instead to the forest.

The parents died in Sachsenhausen.

Like Jósef, and so many children, she and her brother took to the forest near Lidzbark, dug a shelter, and lived in it intermittently for 4 years while begging food and shelter at isolated houses. The dug-out still exists: my student has seen it.

Another lady I know in her eighties, who was a 14 year-old nurse during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, witnessed the murder of her brother, shot through the head by a passing German soldier, who just felt like it.

I suppose he had had a bad day.