Posted on 07/09/2023 9:04:04 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Sometime in July 1943, a lucky accident saved the lives of thirteen-year-old Halina Birenbaum and a group of other girls and women, all of them inmates at the Majdanek Concentration Camp outside of Lublin, Poland.
Halina’s mother was sent to the gas chambers immediately upon their arrival at Majdanek. The daughter was spared to work and endure the torture that was daily life in the camp. “We were tormented day after day by roll calls, starvation, slave labor, beatings and vermin,” she recalled later in her memoir, Hope Is the Last to Die. “Lice devoured us at night.”
After two months of this, Halina was selected and sent along with her sister-in-law, Hela, and other female inmates to an empty hut in the men’s camp. The women had no idea what the Nazis wanted them for; there was nothing to do but wait....
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I just read the story. How frightening for the Jewish people, to endure the various forms of torture there, while waiting for their time to die.
bkmk
It has always stunned me how people can manage to do such horrifying things to each other.
The Milgram’s Experiment explains it all.
A great story of hope and resilience. Thank you.
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