Cassi Creek:
There is evil in the world today that should have died. Anti-Semitism still flourishes in Eastern
Europe. Jews have been told to separate
their selves from the non-Jewish populace, to register their property, and to
prepare for deportation.
The murders
in Kansas demonstrate how little the Holocaust actually caused change in
behavior, learning, and action.
The history of one Shtetl
- it is estimated that 10,000 Jews were killed at this single location.
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/polonnoye/polonnoye.html
“I ought to tell…
(Memoirs of the Former Prisoner of the Polonnoye Jewish ghetto)
By Maria Moiseyevna Tribun
Translated by Irina Kaplan and Evelyn Mintzer
The mass “pogroms” and
the shootings of the Jews took place during the first week of September 1941.
The Jews were hunted down, loaded on trucks, taken to the woods by a railway
station and shot. Small children were simply thrown alive into a ditch. The
Jews, before they were killed, were stripped naked; gold teeth were removed
from their mouths. German soldiers carried out these executions with their
local accomplices called “politsai”.
In October-November all
the Jews of Polonnoye, Poninka, Novolabun, Bereznya, Vorobievka and Kotelyanka
that were still alive, were summoned into a ghetto located in the barracks of a
granite quarry on Berezovskaya Street. My infant son, my parents, my brother
and sister and myself were among these Jews. We lived in the barracks, slept on
the concrete floor and on the shared bunks; there was no heat, the food was
sparse. There were over 1,000 people. Some local residents who lived nearby,
and our friends from the city and the townships, took pity of us and tried to
help as much as they could by bringing potatoes, beets and bread so we wouldn’t
starve to death. This existence lasted for months. Some Jews were swollen from
starvation. Nobody could leave the ghetto; on the way to work we were guarded
by “politsai”. All ghetto inhabitants were ordered to wear a special symbol on
their clothes: yellow circles in the front and back, plus white armbands with
the Star of David. Those, who were found guilty of even the smallest misdeed,
were subjected to corporal punishments, or even shot to death. All ghetto
inhabitants were supposed to be present when the corporal punishments were
administered. Often we were forced to go to the Jewish Cemetery and destroy the
gravestones on the graves of our own loved ones.
Once a stone fell on one
young woman’s foot and smashed her toes. She made an attempt to step aside so
she could wash her wound and apply a bandage. A guard accused the girl of
escaping, and while her father and others watched in horror, the guard shot the
girl.
There were plagues like
typhus, because the ghetto was overcrowded, and nutritious food was not
available.
On June 25, 1942, the
ghetto was surrounded by the fascist executioners, who arrived from the city of
Shepetovka. The executioners selected from our midst 15 young men and women who
would be sent to the Shepetovka ghetto. The rest of the women, old people and
children were shot to death.
Among those victims were
my parents, my brother and my infant son. By that time I managed to escape from
the ghetto and made it to the village of Kotelyanka. There the family of Radion
Yanyuk, whom I knew from before, hid me and my sister Evgeniya, who had escaped
from the Shepetovka ghetto. Radion and his wife Yevdokiya did all they could to
save my sister and me from death.
They subjected
themselves to a great risk. If we were found, not only us, but Radion and
Yevdokiya too, would be severely punished.
Now I bow before those
brave people. They hid me until the village was liberated by the Soviet Army
troops in January of 1944.
My sister Evgeniya by
the end of 1943 joined a guerrilla detachment”
Greater numbers of Jews
were killed in the ravine Babi Yar.
These images are not for the weak stomached. But if we let the current crop of Jew haters
spread their particular brand of evil, there will be more killings like these.
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