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In
Holocaust Testimonies, edited by Joseph J. Preil, the survivor Aaron
Schwartz recalls Plaszow and the slaughter of the Kracow ghetto:
"When
I came to Plaszow the first day, they put me in a group where we were digging a
huge grave .. they brought in trucks, with children, from infant to twelve years
old. They were all killed .. when the children were brought in, they were shot,
right in that grave ..
A little girl, a beautiful blond girl, sat down in the grave, dressed in an
Eskimo white fur coat, was all bloody, and asked for a little bit of water ..
this child swallowed so much blood, because it was shot in the neck. And then it
started to vomit so terribly. And then it lay down and it says, "Mother,
turn me around, turn me around." ..
This child did not know what happened to it. It was shot, it was half-dead after
it was shot. And this child sat down in the grave, among all the corpses, and
asked for water .. it was still alive. There was no mother, just children
brought from the Cracow ghetto.
So this little girl lay down, and asked to be turned around. What happened to it?
I do not know. It was probably covered alive, with chlorine .. I am sure,
because they did not give another shot to that girl .."
Over
one million children under the age of sixteen died in the- she was one of
them ...
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During
World War 2 continually risked his life to
protect and save his Jewish workers. He spent every penny he had bribing
and paying off the Nazis to get food and better treatment for his Jews.
Nobody was hit at his factory, nobody murdered, nobody sent to death
camps like the nearby Auschwitz.
Oscar Schindler earned the
everlasting gratitude of his Schindlerjews. No matter why,
no matter that he was an alcoholic and a womanisor of the worst sort -
what matters to his Jews is that he surfaced from the chaos of madness
and risked everything for them. And generations will remember him for
what he did. No matter how many businesses Schindler failed in, he was a
success in life ..
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