“Am I My Brother’s Keeper?”Slides takenfromSelf-Help in theGhettos ofWarsaw, Lodz,and KovnoBy Geoffrey BrahmerCain & Abel by Tintoretto
Everything can be takenfrom a man but the lastof the human freedoms to choose one’s attitudein an given set ofcircumstances, tochoose one’s own way.--Auschwitz Survivor,Victor E. FranklHuman Gene Map
Oneg Shabbat Archives – Emanuel RingleblumRemembrance: To record and to teach future Generations
The time has come to gather all the rabble together in ghettos and then introducesome epidemics and let them all die. --Heinrich Himmler, Nov, 1939
“About the Jews ofEurope, I have onlyone point of view - theJews have todisappear.”-- Hans Frank, Dec. 16, 1941Chief Administrator, GeneralGovernment
“Life in the Ghettoamounts to a chapterin the history ofcruelty; the deprivingof the Ghettoresidents of theirhuman image.”-- Diary of Avraham Tory,Kovno Ghetto, July 25, 1943Diary of Ilya Gerber, Kovno Ghetto
Jewish Self-Help Could Have Different SourcesJanusz Korczak& Children
Sources of Self-Help Jewish Councils(Judenrats) Grassroots Groups– (Political, Social,Religious) Smugglers Armed ResistanceImage from Yad Vashem Photo Archives
Warsaw GhettoLodz Ghetto450,000 -- 500,000November 16, 1940 – May 16, 1943About 233,00May 1, 1940 – August 31, 1944
Warsaw had a wallLodz (Litzmannstadt) didnot have a wall
In the Łódź ghetto, 95percent of all apartmentshad no sanitation service,no water facilities, notoilet facilities, no sewers.--Isaiah Trunk JudenratWarsaw Ghetto had sewers12
Ghetto Leadership DifferedLodz GhettoMordechai Chaim RumkowskiWarsaw GhettoAdam Czerniakow
Inequalities Existed in most Ghettos
Warsaw House / Tenant Committees
“There was astubborn, unending,continuous battle tosurvive. In view of theunequal forces, it wasa labor of Sisyphus.Jewish resistance wasthe resistance of a fishcaught in a net, amouse in a trap, ananimal at bay.”-- Alexander Donat, TheHolocaust Kingdom.
“The watchword of the organizedgroups of the Jewish communitywas, “To live with honor and diewith honor!”--Last letter of EmanuelRingleblum, March 1, 1944
Lately we have seen aninteresting phenomenon.In many1940housecommittees, women are2000 Self-Helpreplacingmen who areCommitteesleavingbecause they are10,000burnedoutVolunteersand tired.There are now housecommittees where womenJanuary, 1942comprise the entire1600 Committeesleadership.6000-8000Emanuel Ringleblum, June 10,1942 Volunteers
“As he trudges home, he looks into awindow facing the street. It is ahospital and surgeons are operating tosave a child’s life. “But why, why?Why save? Why, to whom, to what isthe child being brought back?Each day the profiles of our children,of our wives,acquire the mourninglook of foxes, dingoes, kangaroos.Our howls are like the cry of jackals . . . But we are not animals. We operateon infants. It may be pointless or evencriminal. But animals do not operateon their young.”From a Chronicle of a Single Day,October 1941, from Oneg Shabbatby Leyb Goldin
“I have been slowly coming to the conclusion that thewhole balance of this self-help activity is simply thatpeople die more slowly. We must finally admit toourselves that we can save nobody from death; we don’thave the means to.” --Rachel Auerbach, Feb. 2, 1942
Break up of House CommitteesGerman Labor Quotas & Body Snatching
Return to the Warsaw Ghetto:A Presentation By Geoffrey BrahmerTyphus & ParówkiDisinfection Showers
Smuggling in Warsaw GhettoKohn & Hellers
Emmanuel Ringelblum: “Three things areinvincible: the German Army, the BritishIsles, and Jewish Smuggling.”Abraham GanzweichThe 13, Control Office to CombatBlack Market and Profiteering
“Each piece of bread that we buy on the open market is soaked with Jewishblood.” --Abraham Lewin, Warsaw Diary,Tuesday, June 2, 1942
Child Smugglers in Prison, Warsaw Ghetto
The lives of the smugglers arefilled with danger. Not a daypassed when one of them was notcut down by machine-gun fire . . .But the smuggling did not stop. . .-- Study on Smuggling, Oneg ShabbatArchive, Mojzesz Passenstein
With Deportations toTreblinka, Self-Help inWarsaw Ghetto Moves toHiding, Escape andUltimately Resistance
Łódź: “Manchester of Poland”No House Committees; Virtually No Smuggling
Ghetto Money in Lodz –“Rumkies”
Rumkowski Versus the UnionsBreaking the Unions (1940/1941)
Community Flyer:Hospital Workers StrikeTerror tactics used against uswill not break the action . . .They are even arrestingstrikers’ family members.Within the last 24 hours, 35people have been arrested. . .December, 1940
Fekalists in Lodz
Stella Rein - Teacher
Elementary School in Lodz
Lodz Gymnasium Class, 1941
Lodz Schools End with Influx of JewishRefugees, Autumn, 1941
Lodz Gypsy CampNov/Dec 1941Physician LotteryDr. Dubski, PragueDr. Karol Boehm, PragueDr. Kraus, PragueDr. Vogel, PragueDr. Fiszel Altman, LodzDr. Aron Nikelburg, Warsaw
Story of Dr.Daniel WeiskopfHiding & Resistancein Lodz Ghetto
Dr. DanielWeiskoptHans Biebow
Story of RachelHerschenbergMidwife of Lodz
Anna Toronczyk, Rachel’s Twin
SalomeaHerschenbergKape
The Midwife from LodzNew Birth is Symbol for Rebirth of Nation “In a filthy, well camouflaged cellar mymother examined the heavily bleedingwoman, removed the retained placenta by anungloved and not too clean hand. She waitedtill the bleeding stopped, checked the baby,and then returned to the camp alone. “Sally, .it’s a healthy and beautiful babyboy. I am concerned about the sterility .Imust see her (the mother again.) The Nazis took away from us the rights to bepregnant and to bear children. I’m fullytrained to deliver babies, and babies are thepromise of life. . . . They are the symbol of therebirth of our nation.”From The Midwife from Lodz, essay/memoir byDr. Salomea KapeRachel Herschenberg52
Lodz Cemetery, Murder Pits Prepared forJewish Clean Up Crew, but saved byRussian Army who liberates Lodz onJanuary 19, 1945 .
Lodz Cemetery Pits, Photo taken July, 2011
Grave of Daniel Weiskopt, Lodz CemeteryPhoto taken July, 2011
KovnoGhettoAugust 18, 1941 –August 1, 1944Large Ghetto: 27,500 peopleSmall Ghetto: 2,500 people
MartyrdomLet us walk with heads heldhigh. Let no one think athought that woulddisqualify his sacrifice. . .The fire that consumes ourbodies is the fire that willrebuild the Jewish people.”-- Rabbi Elchonon WassermanRav Elkchonon Wasserman
Leadership of Kovno Jewish Council(Established August 4, 1941)AvrahamGolub (Tory)SecretaryLeibGarfunkelDeputyChairmanDr. ElkhananElkes,ChairmanYakovGoldbergHead of LaborOfficeZvi LevinCouncilAdvisor
Ghetto Workshops“Work for Life” PharmacyLaundry Pottery shopTailoring Metal ShopsSaddlery CarpentryToy factory
Pharmacy Department: Smuggling Medicine, Links withJewish Underground / Partisans
Rabbits and Razor Blades
Resistance in SongThe Jewish BrigadesJewish brigadesIn patches we parade.Our troubles we bear,We never despair!Just because we do not whimperWhen you beat us black and blue,Do not think that broken bodies,Mean a broken spirit, too.--Avron Akselrod, Sept. 1941From the Diary of Ilya Gerber
Sixty years later, it seems to me thatamong my memories, the mostaudible (and visible) form ofresistance in the ghetto was music.--from Courage was My Only Option: TheAutobiography of Roman Kent
EzrahCharitableSocietyFounded by 2 womenMiriam ShorMrs Krumer“Jews, donate for the poor and for the naked the oldwinter clothing and shoes you no longer need! Donot stint! Give generously!”
Nazi Decree: May 7, 1942Any Jewish woman found to be pregnantwill be put to death immediately.
Kovno Medical Department Perform births whenpregnancies are illegal Hide Typhus cases Will not give out names ofdentists in ghetto Establish Secret Asylum forMentally Disabled Establish Secret Orphanage inHospital Hospital used for secret prayermeetings and holidaycelebrationsDr. Moses BraunsDirector of Jewish HospitalBy Josef Schlesinger
Prohibitions AgainstEducation & Schools(Aug / 1942)Shmuel Rosental, Teacherin Secret School
The CourageousTeacher, Mrs. SegalHitler has promised that therewill be no more PurimFestivals . . . Mrs. Segal(teacher) pays no heed to bansand prohibitions. Although theJewish School has beenofficially closed on orders fromthe Germans, this order has yetto reach this courageous anddistinquished educator.--Diary of Avraham Tory,March 21, 1943
Book Aktions: Hiding Books in Kovno Ghetto
Attempting to “Remove” People from Historyand the Importance of Jewish Cemeteries
Rabbi Ephraim Oshry
Can one cook on the sabbath? Should the critically ill fast onYom Kippur? Are marriages of conveniencesanctified? Can one entrust a Jewish childto non-Jews? Can one risk life to joinpartisans? Can one risk life for prayer &sabbath?Rabbi Ephraim Oshry
Jewish Self-Help at Liberationand Beyond
Rescuing Hidden Children in Lithuania
Miriam, Dr. Joel and Dr. Elkhanan Elkes
“Apartfrom seeing her husbandand children, two objectssustained her in captivity.One was a piece of bread,which she always hid abouther person; the other was abroken piece of comb. Shekept the bread in casesomeone needed it more thanshe; and no matter what,morning and night, shewould comb her hair toaffirm her person.”-- From Dr. Elkhanan ElkhananElkes in the Kovno Ghetto: ASon’s Holocaust Memoir
What we were unable to cry and shriek outto the world, we buried in the ground . . . Iwould love to see the moment in which thegreat treasure will be dug up and screamthe truth at the world . . . May the treasurefall into good hands, may it last into bettertimes, may it alarm and alert the world towhat happened . . We may now die inpeace.-- David Graber, Age 19, Oneg ShabbatArchives, Last Will and Testament
Tension and anxiety among us haveincreased to an indescribable level . . . Will we be liberated, will we behuman again?. . . If we survive . . .We willremember the holy ones, the pureones, the guiltless heroes. We willremember our fathers, our relatives,acquaintances who were murdered,who starved to death and sufferedindescribable torment. . . . . Wewillremember. . .--Diary of Unknown Boy, InHebrew, Lodz Ghetto, July 31, 1944
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