And those who do, or are apathetic about it (or work with people who would do it again)
TO HELL WITH YOU!
Posted on 02/03/2014 6:25:27 PM PST by Former Fetus
For decades, Jews around the world have sought out examples of non-Jews like Raoul Wallenberg, and Oskar Schindler, who defied the Nazis to prevent the murder of Jews. In Israel, the Righteous Among the Nations is Yad Vashem's highest honor, and over 23,000 people have been awarded this status since the program began in 1953.
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In 2012, 67 years after the end of the Holocaust and over 20 years since his death, Yad Vashem granted this honor to Antonin Kalina, a Czech communist who saved over 900 boys in Buchenwald.
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Buchenwald, a camp established in 1937 to imprison criminals and political opponents of the Nazi regime, swelled to over 100,000 inmates in the final months of the war.
Included in this influx of Jewish prisoners were a large number of boys, many between the ages of 12 and 16. These boys had come from all over Europe and had already undergone unimaginable horrors: ghettoization, transports, brutalizations, privations, starvation and often the loss of their families. By the time they arrived in Buchenwald, they were already hardened veterans of the camps, having learned how to survive under the most inhuman conditions. Upon their arrival at Buchenwald, thanks to Kalina and his deputies, their situation improved dramatically.
(Excerpt) Read more at virtualjerusalem.com ...
Man’s inhumanity to man...
Altruism and collectivism taken to extremes.
I would like to see this movie.
My grandfather was in Buchenwald.
So even a Communist can do what is right and just. May he have some reward for his courage and decency. God bless him.
Dearest (((Yaelle)))
And those who do, or are apathetic about it (or work with people who would do it again)
TO HELL WITH YOU!
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