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Maurice
Deluty
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| The
Sacred Memories - Never to Forget |
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| I
want to say that one of the hardest things for some Holocaust
survivors is to recall, which, in a sense is to relive thos
epainful emotional experiences of sixty years ago. |
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| I
have total and vivid memories of the Holocaust perpetrated by
the Nazis during the Twentieth Century. I am an eyewitness survivor
of the happenings from September 1939, when Poland was invaded.
I had the experience of Ghetto life for three years and was
imprisoned in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Finally in the Spring
of 1945 I liberated myself. I escaped by jumping from a moving,
open freight train transport. Most of the inmates on the train
were sick and dying because of an epidemic of dysentery. There
were armed guards on each car, but I was fortunate enough to
escape relatively unhurt. |
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| For
me it is difficult to describe the inhumanity of what occurred
or to comprehend how a civilized Western society in the twentieth
century produced the Nazi culture, which successfully carried
out acts of genocide, mass murder, terror and killing of so
many millions of men, women and children. Perhaps this was a
preview of the terror which now threatens the whole world in
the 21st Century. |
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| It
is fair to ask why, how this was possible? What did the world
learn from this? A number of times I have made presentations
in schools or as a guest speaker and given my personal perspective
as any eyewitness of what occurred. It is extremeley important
to point out over and over again that the indifference and complacency
of world society helped the Nazis. |
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| Thank
you for your attention to my thoughts and experiences. |
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