Warsaw is the
nearest major city to Bunzlau, the Nazi concentration camp that held my father and
his two brothers. The average daytime high is 24 degrees (F). The low is 12
degrees. The Jews at this camp were poorly dressed for this misery.
You might wonder why
I am showing a photo of an American Nazi-party member who is the sole Republican
candidate for a congressional primary in a month. Simple. My Dad thought Nazis
would never go away. The hate-filled man in this picture proves my Dad’s point.
The next three photos
are for my children and their children. You can look at it, too. It names the
fathers, mothers, aunts, uncles and children in our Hungarian family who died,
mostly at the hands of Nazis, but also on the Russian front.
In the days leading
up to February 11, 1945, my Dad could hear the Allied artillery pounding away
from the west and the Russian cannons booming in the east. It must have been exhilarating
to know that freedom was days away. The Nazis knew it, too. They increased food
rations and got clothes for their prisoners. Sounds like a PR trick that would
be tried today by callous leaders who lie and distort to justify their bigotry.
In the end, the truth
comes out.
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The Family of Otto Lefkovits (Robert O. LeRoy)
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