Post by Soutpeel on May 1, 2017 18:32:49 GMT 7
Philip Riteman was just 13 when the Nazis shoved him and his family on to a train bound for Auschwitz from the Pruzhany ghetto in Poland. At the time, he and his family had no idea they were being carted to their deaths.
"Three o'clock in the morning somebody [yells] and I see the German sitting with a gun and screaming, yelling, 'Out, out you Jews!'" Riteman recalled.
They walked to the railroad tracks and Riteman saw freight trains stretching as far as his eyes could see. Riteman, a Polish Jew, said about 100 people were crammed into the trains which measured roughly 8ft by 20ft. The Nazis told them it would be an hour's ride.Why remembering the Holocaust matters more than ever
Auschwitz survivor Philip Riteman says the Holocaust must be remembered so 'it doesn't happen again'.
www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/04/remembering-holocaust-matters-170428122907845.html
"Three o'clock in the morning somebody [yells] and I see the German sitting with a gun and screaming, yelling, 'Out, out you Jews!'" Riteman recalled.
They walked to the railroad tracks and Riteman saw freight trains stretching as far as his eyes could see. Riteman, a Polish Jew, said about 100 people were crammed into the trains which measured roughly 8ft by 20ft. The Nazis told them it would be an hour's ride.Why remembering the Holocaust matters more than ever
Auschwitz survivor Philip Riteman says the Holocaust must be remembered so 'it doesn't happen again'.
www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/04/remembering-holocaust-matters-170428122907845.html
