International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Ruth

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Date: Monday, January 27, 2020 at 11:53 AM
To: Ruth Ryals <rryals@comcast.net>
Subject: International Holocaust Remembrance Day | Opinion

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OPINION | JOSEPH POLAK
A tale of two guards wavering on the precipice of the Holocaust

It was winter, and he wore a gray overcoat that had seen better days. His fedora was pulled down low, suggesting shabbiness rather than shadiness. He approached me in the kosher market in Brookline, and, for some moments, walked alongside my cart, addressing me as “Rabbi.” He seemed to know that I was a survivor. There was something he needed to tell me.

“It was in Auschwitz,” he began. “We were all walking, a large group of us, by the trees near the crematoria. Around us a great bustle that day, a fearful busy-ness. There had been more people gassed than could be accommodated by the ovens, not enough places to burn all the corpses.”

He was shaking. “Dos hob ich gezehn mit di eygeneh oygen. This mine eyes have seen. I saw this, Rabbi. Never have I told anyone about it, until now.”

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