[etni] Korczak - for Holocaust day
- From: "avi tsur" <tsuravi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:27:29 +0000
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The Last March - Jehoshua Perle, Witness
??a miracle occurred. 200 children did not cry out. 200 pure souls,
condemnedto death, did not weep. Not one of them ran away. None tried to
hide. Like stricken swallows they clung to their teacher and mentor, to
theirfather and brother, Janusz Korczak, that he might protect and preserve
them?Janusz Korczak was marching, his body bent forward, holding the hand of
a child, without a hat, a leather belt around his waist and wearing high
boots. A few nurses followed by 200 children dressed in clean and
meticulously cared for clothes, who were being carried to the altar?on all
sides children were surrounded by Germans, Ukrainians and this time also
Jewish policemen. They whipped and fired shots at them? The very stones of
the street wept at the sight of this procession.?
(GY, p. 96) The Last March - Nahum Remba / Witness
?Heading the procession was Korczak. No, I shall never forget this scene as
long as I live. Indeed, this was no march to the carriages, but rather a
muteprotest organized against this murderous regime?It was a procession the
like of which no human eyes has ever witnessed. The children were arranged
infours; Korczak marched at the head with raised eyes, holding the hands of
two children. The second group was led by Stefa Wilczynska, the third by
Broniatovska, whose children held blue coloured knapsacks in their hands.
Heading the fourth group was Szternfeld from the dormitory of Twarda Street.
They were going to their death with eyes full of contemp t for the
murderers?.?
Avi Tsur
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