1) Today's sad holocaust tale comes from PEPKALE DODYK. Pepkale was only three years old when the evil Nazi's and Ukranian police invaded her town. So her and dozens of others fled into a cave with disease carrying bats. But the Germans raided the cave, and captured Pepkale's family. The other Jews escaped through a hole they had dug in the rocks with their bare hands. The Germans wanted the Ukranians to shoot Pepkale. But Usher offered his hidden stash of gold and silver to the Ukranians. So the Ukranians fired 5 shots over the heads of the Jews. They let Pepkale, her mother, and Usher live, but they killed the aunt and cousin. So, the Jews found another cave. They lived in the cave for 2 years, sleeping 22 hours per day, to conserve energy, because the 38 people did not have any food. The Ukranians tried to murder them by sealing the entrance to the cave, time and time again. The Ukranians were apparently unfamiliar with fire, and how it might adversely affect people hiding in a cave.Then a message in a bottle came, and Pepkale and the 37 other Jews came out of the cave.
2) A very brief and heart wrenching tale. SALLY EISNER hid with a Gentile family on their farm during the war. One day, in December 1943, the Nazi's, who apparently had nothing else to do in 1943, came to this remote farm in search of Jews. The Nazis barged into the home, and Sally and her brother hid under the bed! But the Nazis knew instinctively there must be Jews close by. The Nazi's raked under the bed with their bayonets, even stabbing the point against Sally's skin, but she never made a sound. Then the Nazi's searched the potato cellar. The Nazi's were mad when they left, because they didn't find any Jewish people to send to the gas chambers. http://www3.sympatico.ca/mighty1/personal/sally.htm
3) A further sad holocaust tale comes from HENRY FRIEDMAN. Henry was just a small lad when the evil Nazi's invaded Poland. The Nazi's would shoot people before breakfast, for no reason. Henry hid in excrement to avoid them.The Nazi's were going to capture Henry's father, but a Christian girl ran from the police station, where she just happened to overhear the Nazi's saying they were going to capture Hanry's dad. The Christian girl hid Henry's family for 2 years on their farm. The rest of the family "hated Jews", but didn't know they were hiding in the barn. Henry's mother gave birth to a baby girl, and the family heroically strangled the baby so it wouldn't cry. Henry now speaks to schoolchildren, and tells them they shouldn't hate.
4) To continue with the "survivors' preoccupation with faeces we have the story of IRENE ZISBLATT (author of the book The Fifth Diamond). We are led to believe that Zisblatt's entire family was killed in the gas chambers, and those diamonds she kept were the last mementos of them. The only way Irene could keep the diamonds hidden was to swallow and retrieve them over and over again. She did this for 15 months. But that is not all. Mengele singled her out and began injecting chemicals into her eyes in an attempt to change their colour and forced her to remain in a cold room for days. He injected viruses under Zisblatt's fingernail and surgically experimented on her to find a way to remove the numbers tattooed on her arm. Afterwards, he ordered the nurse to administer a lethal injection to her, but the nurse worked for the underground and was able to free her. One of many miracles Zisblatt experienced. After her recovery, she was taken in by relatives in America and began a new life with a new name. She married in 1956, and although she had been given watery soup filled with chemicals to destroy her reproductive organs, she gave birth to a son and a daughter in the 1960s.
5) A further sad holocaust tale comes from KRYSTYNA CHIGER. Krystyna was only 8 years old when her, her mother and father, and 3 year old brother Pawelek went to live in the sewers to escape the Nazis. For 14 months, Krystyna's family and 20 other people lived in the sewers, with the GOOD sewer workers bringing them food.There were big red rats in the sewers. Sometimes the family had to run away when the BAD sewer workers showed up. On one occasion, they ran, not knowing where they were going, and stumbled upon some sewer workers who took them to a different sewer. Krystyna's father made a bed for the people in the sewer. Krystyna slept with her father and another man, while her brother slept with his mother. Pawelek had some pet rats. Once a woman who was living in the sewer gave birth to a baby, and the rest of the Jewish people heroically smothered it in a washbasin. The families lived in the sewers for 14 months, never once coming above ground.
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