Summary
Norbert Friedman, 84, recalls a man named Hamek Schildkraut whom he lived with in the Mielec concentration camp in Poland during the Holocaust.
Schildkraut, who had lost his wife and his child in Tarnow, Poland, to bullets from a German's gun, was accused of sabotage because of a broken power press. Such an accusation was a sure death sentence, Friedman said.See the full content of this document
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Lecture to Reflect On the Holocaust
"The Germans had a law of 'group responsibility' in camps" and the countries they were occupying, Friedman said. "If you committed a certain act, the whole group was responsible. If one person resisted, they would take people from the whole group and execute th...
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