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CW: Zaromb shoah history
The Jews of Zaromb offered refugees fleeing the German side whatever help they could, though they themselves had nothing.
Account from a Jewish refugee: “Many stood by the little bridges to speak to the new arrivals and offer them something warm to eat and drink. They sighed together, the local people tried to console the newcomers and helped them find a place to sleep."
Then came 1941, and no Jew had anywhere to flee. #Zaromb #Shoah #Holocaust
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Remember Zaromb, one of the many communities wiped from existence by Nazis and their collaborators. Zaromb was near Treblinka and just on the Soviet side of the partition.
“Gone is the shtetele, which was full of Jewish life, which strove for a better, and more secure future. Zaromb was a shtetl of dreamers and fighters, a shtetl always struggling to eke out a living and striving for a better life, both economically and culturally.”
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Every year, I share the memory book of the lost shtetl of Zaromb, near Treblinka. It is a haunting catalogue of horrors, compiled in 1946. One of the recurring themes of the accounts: Zarombers faced as much danger from Poles as they did from Germans.
“As we saw later, the Poles took an active part in the massacre of the Jews of Zaromb. Several days before, a number of Polish cart drivers had been given orders to be ready to transport the "Zshides" (derogatory term for Jews) of Zaromb. They kept that order secret.”
#Jews #Jewish #History #Holocaust #Poland #Shoah #HolocaustRemembranceDay #Zaromb