These 3 Jewish men arrived in Auschwitz on the same day and were tattooed 10 numbers apart. They met at the Last Eyewitness Project and were photographed by Samdibachom on instagram.
Amazing! I’m Jewish myself. The bond these 3 men share is incredible. I have directly had the pleasure of speaking with a couple survivors myself, the first hand accounts of life back then is harrowing.
A Polish grandma at our temple who recently passed told me a story. She basically was a maid for an officer’s barracks at the time. She got beaten by one of the officers and had enough and slapped the nazi officer back and yelled “why do you do this to me?” She said he was so stunned he just let it happen and left and just made her do extra labor. She recalls that all these years later it was the stupidest and most thrilling thing she’s done because she could have been shot dead on the spot but was allowed to live.
This is the same firecracker of a lady who used a super soaker on my dad at a temple picnic and then said “I’m 84 years old, what are you going to do about it???”
I was going to go to Poland this year and tour Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, and several other camps, but COVID-19 was like “nah, next year”.
There's not many of these survivors left. Mad respect for individuals that managed to live despite Hitler's program of murdering all who didnt fit his ideal of perfection.
Nothing will change you quite like sitting down and listening to the survivors talk. I've spoken with many. The horrors that some of these people saw when they were just children... the last woman I spoke to told me that upon arrival she saw both her parents taken from her, lead to a "shower" and then 5 minutes later their corpses were chucked into a pile literally, right the fuck in front of her. She said the mechanical nature in which the soldiers operated was one of the scarier things about the place. Just cold, unfeeling, machines... glad these boys survived.
CholecalciferPaal on June 12nd, 2020 at 11:43 UTC »
Amazing! I’m Jewish myself. The bond these 3 men share is incredible. I have directly had the pleasure of speaking with a couple survivors myself, the first hand accounts of life back then is harrowing.
A Polish grandma at our temple who recently passed told me a story. She basically was a maid for an officer’s barracks at the time. She got beaten by one of the officers and had enough and slapped the nazi officer back and yelled “why do you do this to me?” She said he was so stunned he just let it happen and left and just made her do extra labor. She recalls that all these years later it was the stupidest and most thrilling thing she’s done because she could have been shot dead on the spot but was allowed to live.
This is the same firecracker of a lady who used a super soaker on my dad at a temple picnic and then said “I’m 84 years old, what are you going to do about it???”
I was going to go to Poland this year and tour Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, and several other camps, but COVID-19 was like “nah, next year”.
kcooper1214 on June 12nd, 2020 at 12:02 UTC »
There's not many of these survivors left. Mad respect for individuals that managed to live despite Hitler's program of murdering all who didnt fit his ideal of perfection.
monkeynuts42zed on June 12nd, 2020 at 14:00 UTC »
Nothing will change you quite like sitting down and listening to the survivors talk. I've spoken with many. The horrors that some of these people saw when they were just children... the last woman I spoke to told me that upon arrival she saw both her parents taken from her, lead to a "shower" and then 5 minutes later their corpses were chucked into a pile literally, right the fuck in front of her. She said the mechanical nature in which the soldiers operated was one of the scarier things about the place. Just cold, unfeeling, machines... glad these boys survived.