Posted on 07/02/2023 10:09:47 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On July 4, 1941, a thirteen-year-old Jewish boy named Ephraim Sternschuss began his diary in the Nazi-occupied Zloczow, Poland, with these lines:
Mother knows nothing about Father’s murder. I won’t be the one to tell. But I have to express what I’m feeling … I’ll write down all the details so when I’m old I’ll remember my youth and this World War, even though I’m not sure I’ll live through it.
I’m writing while lying on my back. I can’t move my legs. Mother says I’m in shock. Maybe I am. Maybe I’m so anxious because I can’t tell her about Father, who was drafted yesterday into forced labor and Mother still believes he’s alive.
The eastern Polish town of Zloczow had been annexed by the Soviet Union after the partition of Poland with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in 1939. Zloczow‘s Jews, who at 14,000 people constituted about half of the population, lived in relative safety until the summer of 1941, when the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union.
They arrived in Zloczow on July 2. With the help of enthusiastic local Polish and Ukrainian collaborators, the SS rounded up 3,500 Jews, among them Adolph Sternschuss, Ephraim’s father. The victims were told they would be sent to forced labor — excavating mass graves of Soviet victims, digging anti-tank ditches, and such.
They were, in fact, digging their own graves.
Ephraim described his father’s departure thusly:
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
Great read.
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Mentions Lvov(Lemberg/Lviv) where my grandmother’s whole European family/extended, were executed in a sandpit about 1941 or so.
Yesterday it was the Nazis. Today it is the Communists. Evil comes back with many names.
Oh yeah, I am going to give up my weapons to lunatic democrats. How about no.
2nd amendment ping.
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I read this from a link on the website. It was one of your earlier posts.
Whole bunch of history that I don’t know.
ping
I doubt many of the collaborators were Polish, that was pretty much Ukranians. Ukrainians were also busy killing Poles at that time.
Thank you.
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