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- Subject: Holocaust Almanac: Plac Zgody - Lassen Sie die Kinder stehen!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.120102.4937@oneb.almanac.bc.ca>
- From: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay)
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 12:01:02 GMT
- Reply-To: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca
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- Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac, Vancouver Island, CANADA
- Keywords: Zgody
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- "One Sunday morning before dawn, a policeman came to Lily's door. ... She
- was asked to take her child out of bed and follow the policeman to Plac
- Zgody where several women were already standing with their little ones.
- Some held their babies in their arms, others let the children hold onto
- their skirts.
- ...
-
- Lily looked up at the windows of the houses surrounding the Plac Zgody, but
- neither outside nor inside the ghetto was there any sign that anyone
- noticed what was taking place in that early dawn.
- ...
-
- A quick, unexpected movement of the guards startled them. Mothers with
- infants in their arms, babies who were at the age when they had just begun
- to crawl, and children who were mostly under eight years of age were
- pressed towards the inner wall of the ghetto. In front of them an
- impenetrable gray wall of stone -- in back of them another insurmountable
- green wall of armed men.
-
- `Lassen Sie de Kinder stehen!' (Let the children stand by themselves!) the
- Germans shouted, trying to pull the mothers away.
-
- Lily held her small daughter tightly in her arms. One of the soldiers
- struggled to take the child away from her and furiously thrust her to
- ground, pulling the child free with a final wrench. Dashing headlong, after
- she had managed to spring to her feet, Lily reached for the little one. The
- thundering tra-ta-ta-ta-a struck the child before her mother could shield
- her. The young child looked like a little angel with her cherubic mouth
- slightly open and her eyes turned towards heaven, only this angel was
- motionless. Lily's screams were quelled in an instant by other bullets
- which pierced her head and heart. Other babies were merely smashed against
- the stone wall by the raging madmen who decided to save their bullets."
-
- Excerpted from----------------------------------------------------------
- "The Survivor in Us All - A Memoir of the Holocaust," Erna F. Rubinstein
- (Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1983) ISBN 0-208-02025-X pp. 61-62
- ------------------------The Old Frog's Almanac--------------------------
-
- For an extensive bibliography dealing with the Holocaust, and containing over
- 1000 citations, contact kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca - it will be sent to you
- by return email. Additions to this bibliography are actively solicited.
-
- For the complete collection of Almanac Holocaust archives, simply let me
- know whether you prefer zipped or tar.Z format. The bibliography is
- included in the archives.
- --
- "We guarantee the effectiveness of the crematoria ovens as well as their
- durability, the use of the best materials and of course, our faultless
- workmanship." From the bargain-basement bid for the crematoria at Treblinka,
- submitted by the enterprising director of the C. N. Kori Company. [Sachar]
-