a life in fragments

Throughout the bitter days of the Warsaw Ghetto, a clandestine group of researchers compiled a vast archive detailing every aspect of life in this prison city built and then obliterated by the Nazis. Led by a historian, Emanuel Ringelblum, the group then buried the archive for for future generations.

On the hot night of 3 August 1942, 19-year-old David Graber signed his name on a piece of paper and put it inside a metal box at 68 Nowolipki Street, in the heart of the Warsaw Ghetto.

"I would love to see the moment in which the great treasure will be dug up and scream the truth at the world," he wrote. "May the treasure fall into good hands, may it last into better times, may it alarm and alert the world to what happened… in the 20th Century… May history be our witness."

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What a horrid time in our history.

spicee wrote:

What a horrid time in our history.

Yes it was spicee, my Father-in-law i should say my Father God Bless Him, he arrived at Aushwich with his Command at the end of the war and he told me all the prisoners ran at them to hug them,He dropped to his knees ang cried at the pure Horror he saw.
Now here was a solder who was 6 foot 6 and was about 260lbs. and strong as a tank and he broke at the horror,he told me he had nightmares for years.
How could Man do this to Man.