TheNoNamedOne
06-05-2007, 07:28 PM
By ARON HELLER, Associated Press Writer
Mon Jun 4, 7:01 PM ET
JERUSALEM - The diary of a 14-year-old Jewish girl dubbed the "Polish Anne Frank" was unveiled on Monday, chronicling the horrors she witnessed in a Jewish ghetto — at one point watching a Nazi soldier tear a Jewish baby away from his mother and kill him with his bare hands.
The diary, written by Rutka Laskier (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070604/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_holocaust_diary) in 1943 shortly before she was deported to Auschwitz, was released by Israel's Holocaust museum ...
http://80.70.129.162/STORAGE/files/9/3659.jpg
"The rope around us is getting tighter and tighter," the teenager wrote in 1943, shortly before she was deported to Auschwitz. "I'm turning into an animal waiting to die." ...
"The little faith I used to have has been completely shattered. If God existed, He would have certainly not permitted that human beings be thrown alive into furnaces, and the heads of little toddlers be smashed with gun butts or shoved into sacks and gassed to death." ...
"I have a feeling that I am writing for the last time," Rutka wrote on Feb. 20, 1943, as Nazi soldiers began gathering Jews outside her home for deportation.
"I wish it would end already! This torment; this is hell. I try to escape from these thoughts of the next day, but they keep haunting me like nagging flies. If only I could say, it's over, you only die once ... but I can't, because despite all these atrocities, I want to live, and wait for the following day."
This story on Yahoo has deeply bothered me. Once again, we are reminded of man's depravity, and we should always be reminded of it where ever it exists, either in the present, past, or whatever form it comes disguised as when it is too ashamed to blatantly reveal itself.
What a beautiful looking young girl. And what a sad pity.
Mon Jun 4, 7:01 PM ET
JERUSALEM - The diary of a 14-year-old Jewish girl dubbed the "Polish Anne Frank" was unveiled on Monday, chronicling the horrors she witnessed in a Jewish ghetto — at one point watching a Nazi soldier tear a Jewish baby away from his mother and kill him with his bare hands.
The diary, written by Rutka Laskier (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070604/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_holocaust_diary) in 1943 shortly before she was deported to Auschwitz, was released by Israel's Holocaust museum ...
http://80.70.129.162/STORAGE/files/9/3659.jpg
"The rope around us is getting tighter and tighter," the teenager wrote in 1943, shortly before she was deported to Auschwitz. "I'm turning into an animal waiting to die." ...
"The little faith I used to have has been completely shattered. If God existed, He would have certainly not permitted that human beings be thrown alive into furnaces, and the heads of little toddlers be smashed with gun butts or shoved into sacks and gassed to death." ...
"I have a feeling that I am writing for the last time," Rutka wrote on Feb. 20, 1943, as Nazi soldiers began gathering Jews outside her home for deportation.
"I wish it would end already! This torment; this is hell. I try to escape from these thoughts of the next day, but they keep haunting me like nagging flies. If only I could say, it's over, you only die once ... but I can't, because despite all these atrocities, I want to live, and wait for the following day."
This story on Yahoo has deeply bothered me. Once again, we are reminded of man's depravity, and we should always be reminded of it where ever it exists, either in the present, past, or whatever form it comes disguised as when it is too ashamed to blatantly reveal itself.
What a beautiful looking young girl. And what a sad pity.