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Elected Progressive Christians - This Is Also Your Fight [1]
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Date: 2025-06-27
"They came for the teachers first," he said. My mind blacked out as I saw the utility of that perverse logic. He said that it began with bullying; first with forcing Jews to clean the streets with toothbrushes, and when it wasn't "clean enough," they stripped the Jews and beat them. He also talked about how all the Jews were given arm bands with the Star of David on them to identify them as Jews, so that among many other horrendous things, a curfew could be enforced.
They had to work for free from 7 till 7, and that being out after 7:00 P.M. was punishable by death. He made that point before he talked about how his father courted his mother - breaking the curfew. His father literally risked his life to court his mother.
His father learned they were exterminating the Jews by following the Nazis from a safe distance to the suspected location after hearing some rumors about it; he’d spoken about the strong sense of community among the Jewish people. His father witnessed some of his Jewish friends and neighbors being stripped, being shot, and being put in a hole in the ground. He said his father couldn’t believe what he was seeing. Seems he also said that because the Nazis ran out of "room" to bury bodies, that bought him and his family some time.
I can’t remember how they protected him (the speaker as a child), seems they made a room for him. It’s coming back to me now.
His father took one brick a day from where he was forced to labor and hid the brick in his pants or coat some way, risking his life. He built a wall with those bricks to hide his family behind for the day when the knock on the door would come early in the morning at 4 A.M., I believe he said. The speaker’s parents left him with a relative or a neighbor where he’d be safe at some point.
Memory fails, but the last thing I recall is the Holocaust survivor who spoke watched his parents be taken away in a railcar. I cried
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