Those of us directed towards the right were lined up in threes with much shooting and beating. I was in the first row, at the platform’s edge. Suddenly, we see a group of older women and women with children nearing the road, under the platform. In the first row I see my mother supported on both sides by two friends. She too becomes aware of me. And out of the throat of this reticent, soft-spoken woman who I don’t remember ever raising her voice, breaks out a terrible, desperate, piercingly loud, howling shout: ‘GYURIKA!!!

Azriel Feuerstein

Tag: auschwitz-concentration-camp azriel-feuerstein the-tumbler the-holocaust

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I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible

Raoul Wallenberg

Tag: courage world-war-ii humanitarianism the-holocaust

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