'Schindler's List' survivors reunited

[sabra]

Source: MSNBC/AP

Jews immortalized by Spielberg to mark emotional anniversary

WARSAW, Poland - Holocaust survivors, including some saved by German industrialist Oskar Schindler, are gathering to mark the 65th anniversary of the Nazi liquidation of Krakow's Jewish ghetto.

In just two days in March 1943, German soldiers emptied the ghetto of its estimated 16,000 Jewish residents, shipping them to a forced-labor camp in nearby Plaszow and to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, where most were killed in the gas chambers.

Those left behind were executed, with some 2,000 Jews killed. By the end of World War II, just 3,000 Jews who lived in the ghetto survived.

On Sunday, about 25 survivors -- some returning to Poland for the first time since the war's end -- will march through the Podgorze district in Krakow to the grounds of the former camp in Plaszow where around 8,000 people, including Poles, perished during the war.

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[Dukkha]

1. sickening

even long after death they are still persecuted

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. I want to be alone in a room with one of these fuckers, a crowbar,

and a stereo blasting Motörhead at maximum volume, to set the mood.

[Scairp]

4. What happened here?

I'm not clear on where or what this is. Do you have a story to go with this photo?

[Dukkha]

9. the caption reads

Anti Semitic inscriptions and a Nazi swastika are seen on the grave of Tzaddik Elimelech at the Jewish cemetery in Lezajsk, southeastern Poland, Thursday, March 6, 2008. Police are trying to find the unknown perpetrators who desecrated the building in the night from March 4 to March 5, 2008. Every year thousands of Orthodox Jews visit the grave on the anniversary of Elimelech's death.
11:59 a.m. ET, 3/6/08

[dipsydoodle]

3. So sad

It's an emotive subject. It's difficult to discuss such inhumanity.

[David Zephyr]

5. Never forget.

25 survivors. Still marching. What treasures they are!

sabra, thank you for posting this story.

[Behind the Aegis]

6. And soon, they will be gone.

I hope their stories will not die with them.

[leftynyc]

8. Thanks to Steven Spielberg

they wont be. I'm sure you're aware of the remembrance project he has spent so many years on. He's determined that people never forget.

[Solly Mack]

7. K&R