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Monday, February 5, 2007

LEST WE FORGET : PART TWELVE

“ Don’t say ‘Mama’!” The Jews are herded like cattle and slain like sheep, separated men from women and children in the square, and when, from the herd of Jews, some instinct makes a woman hand her baby to a Polish woman onlooker, she too is blessed with the sign of the cross, and the infant taken... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, February 4, 2007

LEST WE FORGET : PART ELEVEN

Once more, I stress that nothing in this piece is designed gratuitously to shock, for far, far worse events than are described here took place thousands of times in thousands of placed in Russia, the Balkans and Eastern Europe Aktion! There is a form of social schizophrenia abroad that day: for some... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, February 2, 2007

LEST WE FORGET : PART TEN

Foreword. Some readers might think that in this account of the German aktion I indulge in the recounting of gratuitous violence to shock and appal; horror for the sake of horror, so to speak. Sadly there is no need for this, for true accounts of many, many aktions are more unbelievably awful in... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, February 1, 2007

LEST WE FORGET ; PART NINE.

The Germans had a name for the rounding up of the Jews; it was an … “Aktion”! There came a squealing of ill-maintained brakes; the clatter of falling tailboards from the lorries, and the slamming of car doors. Germans and Hiwis poured into the village, their iron shod boots kicking up spurts of... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

LEST WE FORGET : PART EIGHT

Foreword:– I dwell at some length on the private, intimate life of Zivia, before the German aktion, for this abrupt shattering of their social lives, and their annihilation must have been like this for the Jews of this village, and God alone knows how many other villages, towns and cities. In their... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

LEST WE FORGET : PART SEVEN

Zivia Zivia had sobbed, “ Will it ever be over Avram? Will people ever stop killing each other? God, I am so tired! Look at me; I am twenty years old, and I am an old woman already. And seeing those photographs I am a thousand years old now. Oh Avram, I think you are right; that I must abandon the... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, January 28, 2007

LEST WE FORGET : PART SIX

I do apologise for having posted the wrong part earlier today. This is the right part. Zivia knew that when the Nazis were ready, they would come and take the people away to the pits which had been dug in the depths of the forest, and there shoot them all; men women and children alike, sparing... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, January 27, 2007

LEST WE FORGET : PART FIVE

Foreword … Some outsiders informed the elders of the Jewish ghettoes of the Nazis’ killing of Jews and others in other places, but they generally they were not believed. In the literature of the Shoah, one finds constant references to this sense of denial of the Jews:this total incomprehension of... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, January 26, 2007

LEST WE FORGET : PART FOUR

Foreword... A thread that runs through everything that I have heard and have read of the Shoah is the sense of denial of the Jews, even in the face of eyewitness reports of mass deportations and mass shootings. They simply, and perhaps justifiably, could not comprehend the depths of depravity to... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, January 25, 2007

LEST WE FORGET : PART THREE

Foreword. From the earliest times, Poland has been one of the most devoutly Catholic countries in Europe; possibly the world, and as we noted in Part One, had a caste system as rigid as that in India kept the Jews at the bottom of the social heap. Probably for these two reasons, a rabid... Sign in to see full entry.

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