The Few Who Survived ...
The Few Who Survived ... Some First-Hand Accounts of the Intensified Terror in Europe {Tko writer it an observer of tho International Mtteuo and Relief Committee, of 103 Park Ave., who is Mtv m...
...Althoagh the csuse of the disaster is aa yet aa-known, thia makea the tranapertatioa of refageea via the Black Sea difficult...
...The problem was now to get to Rumania...
...Unlike Elisabeth, Simon was esger to talk because for the past four years he hsd lived as an Aryan...
...Several days later she tried again to cross the border...
...But terror and luffing transformed thia little girl into a heroic little woman...
...She crossed it but was spotted by Rumanian Guards and sent back...
...Free porta other than Palestine to shelter Nasi victims must be established st once...
...He himself, together with seversl hundred other Jews of Snistin, lured by the promise of work, wss placed in a csttl* car—one of those lime-covered German cattle ears In which over four million Jsws of Poland hsve been csrried to death...
...But the fourth time, with the aid of a young Zionist revisionist, himself a Polish refugee, sh* and her brothers were smuggled into Rumania...
...Benjamin snd a 18-year-old boy (Simon Birnbaum of Sniatin) wham ha took along with him remained alive...
...They did not molest her...
...Some First-Hand Accounts of the Intensified Terror in Europe {Tko writer it an observer of tho International Mtteuo and Relief Committee, of 103 Park Ave., who is Mtv m the Middle East on refugee work...
...Benjamin estimates that the death-train in which he was contained 600 cars (each containing ISO Jews) and was pulled by eight locomotives...
...Age 22...
...Tea bays between the ages of 16 and 22 jumped out, Eight ware killed by the speeding trsin...
...Since my work in the Middle East, I have lost sll literary ambition...
...Till date of July 10, 1944, will haunt ma forever...
...Hs wss with the Germans on the Russisn front and then aaw the liquidation of the ghettos in Bialystok, Rowno, Sniatin...
...At an Aryan he was sent to Berlin where he joined the Todt organisation and then shipped back to Poland where he also worked for the General In-, spec tor d«« deuttchen Stratttnwetent (Inspector of Highway System...
...i. Benjamin pomeranz of sniatin, Poland...
...This time the German guarda on the Hungarian border sent her back...
...I have before me about thirty pages of testimony tires by about 100 of the refugees whom I interviewed...
...At the moment, however, I shell confine my-•df t* a few...
...However, on the way, unable to suffer the gases produced by the moist lime and ths stench of the desd bodies, he, together with a number of youngsters who were still breathing, used his laat energy to force a window in the cattle car...
...It ia aa yet unknown whether the beat aaak be cease of a storm or s torpedo...
...But after having...
...Until 1848 aha lived with her parents and two brothers, Michel and Manek (ages 15 and 14) in tha Krakow ghetto...
...ship, which left Rumania] August 2 with twe ether motor ships, the Morinai and Bulbul...
...Moshe* used to smuggle and manufacture guns for the underground movement...
...The Hun-t»ri»n Jews themselves were at this time in trouble and could not give bar much help...
...seen these frightened, tortured remnants of the Jewish people, after having heard tha tales of cruelty, despondency sad hops from these young snd old men snd women, two hundred who are orphaned children from Trans-{dftria, and young boys and girls who escaped from the ghettoes, concentration ramps and death chambers tf Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Yugoslavia and Rumania, I merely have the desire to drop everything and tell to whoever cares to listen what I have seen and heard...
...The joy ef 6M other refagees from the other twe bests who arrived ssfely st Istsnbul ea route to Palestine, tamed into greet sorrow on learning of the tragedy...
...The only two of a car containing 180 Jews who remained alive...
...Far that morning- and afternoon I waa the only American who talked at length to hundreds of the 742 Jewish refugees who arrived in Istanbul from Rumania on the molorship Kaxtbk...
...carried also a number of refugees from Poland...
...Sh* tried a third time only to be sent back by the Rumanians...
...Benjsmin saw with his own eyes bow 800 Jews ef Sniatin were shot by ths Germans...
...Simon witnessed th* beginning and th* end of the Warsaw ghetto...
...I shall saver forget the eyes of this little underfed •ad frightened child aa she related to me her story in ms Jlthy, overcrowded surroundings...
...2. SlMON SEVERIN ZILBERMAN from Praga, Warsaw...
...To get his first gun be had to kill s German with a knife...
...With the aid of a number of Jews she then managed h) cross the Slovak-Hungarian border, arriving in Hungary at the very moment when the Germans com-¦uenced thsir Judtn-Vemichtung campaign...
...Tonight only a few survivor* were picked ap...
...He was a friend of Adam Czerniakow'a son and was near Cserniskow when the letter committed suicide...
...i Elisabeth braunfeld, lfTyears old...
...19 years old...
...Then one day the BJF (Brigade fur Jadm-Verniekfane—Brigade for the Extermination of 'twi) took her parents away together with 600 other Japs...
...I COULD go on to tell you the story of Mosbs Ekster-man, about 26 years old, from Tsrnow, Poland...
...By slow stages, together with her two brpthers, •h* made her way to the Rumanian border...
...Refugee Ship Sunk in Bosporus Special to The New LiADta Istanbul, August «.— The small motorship Mef-kare, carrying 266 Jewish refagees from Constanss, ssnk todsy in the Blsck Sea, outside Tarkey...
...The window gave in and also a number of boards...
...To tha question about the fat* of Polish Jews I can give you the answer of about fifty of the Polish refugees who are the only ones wag a*eaejf|| truth: EXCEPT FOR ABOUT 1(10,000, WHOABE IN HIDing in VARIOUS PARTS OF THafOtajr||try, THERE ARE no LONGER any JEWS IN POLAND...
...She never saw them again...
...There was no bitterness in her voices—only sadness, resignation...
...He, too, jumped.oat of a death-train when it reached Zablotow...
...Through a miracle (aha was too frightened to give details) the managed, hjgtther With her two little brothers, to reach glovakia...
...Ha was also in Belrtec snd gave me a detailed description of ths Belrtec Crsmstorium where Jews of sll sexes and ages, stripped of sll clothing, are placed on huge steel plates charged with electric current and then, by a speeisl lever, sre dumped into the river...
Vol. 27 • August 1944 • No. 33
