Holocaust world war 2 Survivor Paul Monka testimony coupled with real time historical testimony from Gaza holocaust world war 3

Paul Monka, holocaust survivor of Bedzin, Poland. The Jews lived in Bedzin for 600 years, it is one of the oldest cities in Poland, 12 kilometers from the German border. My father was in the business of wholesale textiles. When Hitler invaded Poland I was 18 years old, I was in the polytechnic school for engineering where there were only 5 Jews in the class. The professor said we don’t need any Jewish answers and I said have your read a book by my uncle, it was a well known book and the professor was embarrassed. After class a group of the Christian students beat me so brutally I could barely walk home. I transferred to a university in Belgium although when took the train I was turned back at the border for unknown reasons. One week later we awoke to heavy bombardment all surrounding the city, explosions are all around us. We look up in the sky and see hundreds of German airplanes flying east. Two days later the German army marched into my town. We all belonged to different Zionist organizations, there were 45,000 Jewish people in the town of a 60,000 population. This is a prosperous region in Poland with coal and steel ore, the most industrial area in Poland where several nearby cities form a greater metropolis. When Germans occupied they came every day with different orders. We couldn’t understand that Jewish people are different from other people, it was a tremendous humiliation. They waited for the Jewish people to go to Saturday prayers, then they surrounded the synagogue and threw fire to set the building into flames and they did not allow anyone out of the synagogue when it was burning. I saw this and I grabbed my family and took them into a hiding place. The flames and the screaming of the people, it is impossible to describe how we felt. We were watching all night, the screams started to subside. Next day the charred bodies of 800 people were taken to a mass grave outside of town. This gave me the idea that the Germans came to destroy the Jewish people, we were shocked. I knew deep in my heart that we are all going to be killed eventually. They confiscated the business, my fathers business. It was a pity to see the children wearing a Jewish star because they do not know what Judaism means. The bread lines got bigger all the time. They began to punish people for trying to smuggle food. They formed the Jewish police to deliver the quotas of people and took us to forced labor. One day the Jewish police came to my house because I was on their list to go to a labor camp in Sosnowiec. I resisted because I worked for a German SS who was friendly to my family and he protected us from being deported. He rescued me through his intercession in Berlin using all of his contacts to ransom my life and he succeeded, I was one of few people that ever got out of that prison. Later on his workshop was closed down and he was sent to the battlefront. The residents of the ghetto were sent letters that we must all go to a registration. 20,000 people showed up but it was not a registration, it was a selection. My brother and I pushed ourselves into the selection with the working men and we 6,000 were sent back home to the ghetto, the rest of the people were deported. My mother and sisters were deported to Hakoach ghetto, my father was put in the group to go to Auschwitz. My heart dropped for my father, I had to save the life of my father. I ran to the village where they were in a field surrounded by German police. Using a medical armband I disguised myself and I was able to take my father out of there. I was crying very bitterly because I saved my father’s life when he was sure to die. No one knew that Auschwitz was a death camp at this time. I went to another village to make contact with the Polish underground army. They asked me to return to my hometown and recruit others to join the underground. I went back home and moved my family out of the ghetto to live in secret with a farmer, we built a bunker under the farmers house to hide the family. I went back to the ghetto again again again again to save my relatives, my girlfriend and her relatives. Ultimately many of my family members and my girlfriend with her whole family refused to see any threat to their life in the situation, they felt they were safe where they were and they were deported very shortly after this to Auschwitz where they perished. I was full of courage and I stole 500 documents because it meant 500 lives, I gave them to the underground. I participated with the partisans in sabotage operations, I carried a pistol at all times, if the Germans were to catch me with the pistol I would be executed. We heard the rumble of the battlefront weeks before it arrived and we saw in this time the big and fast retreat of the German troops. Lublin was liberated by the Russian army and I was given a role in the Polish provisional government, I was 24 years old. I helped in Italy, France and Austria to investigate after the liberation to find any of the German Stormtroopers in hiding under false names and we arrested many. I was offered promotions in the government of Poland but I declined because my heart was torn over what happened to the Jews. I went to the liberated camp of Auschwitz to recruit the Jewish people and I got many of them jobs in the government and police force. I helped the refugee organization and the Zionist organizations to transport many many Jewish people on illegal transport, to smuggle them across the border from the displacement camps in Germany and Austria to Israel. I wanted very much to go to Israel but when the war broke out I went to united states and there I met my wife.

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