No one really 'knows' what happened to them. Of course, they were the 'wrong type' of people to survive the NAZI occupation. People ask me about it, younger people mostly. Some older people bring it up, I've even been asked if I was a surviver (not nearly old enough- by 20+ years). Or, people see it is then look away. You can see the realization in their eyes, but they don't want to confront the truth of what it means.
People forget real evil. This makes me remember everyday what happened. The small amount of pain in getting the tatoo is nothing to what those people suffered.
http://www.zchor.org/BABIYAR.HTM
RUDENKO, Azriel' Abov b. 1907
RUDENKO, Moshko Azrielev b. 1907
RUDENKO, Grigorij b.1906
RUDENKO, Kllin b. 1906
RUDENKO, Denis Artem. b. 1906
RUDENKO Fedir
RUDENKO Feodosei
RUDENKO Grigory
RUDENKO Ivan
RUDENKO Ivan a
RUDENKO Mikola
RUDENKO Mikola a
RUDENKO Petro
RUDENKO Petro a
RUDENKO Timofiy
RUDENKO Vasil
RUDENKO Vasil a
(The JewishGen Yizkor Book Necrology Database indexes the names of persons in the necrologies — the lists of Holocaust martyrs)
One of my first boyfriends brought me home to meet his parents, both had numbers tattooed above their wrist. Naturally I asked him what that was all about and he told me his parents were at Auschwitz, they never spoke about that time to him.
Mom told me not to become too friendly with that boy as his parents would never except me, she was correct. However Mom did hit the library and took out books, including Leon Uris for me to understand why and what happend to them. Allot for a 13 year old child to absorb.
When I married at a very, very young age I married a Catholic Pollack who's mother had been rescued from the Warsaw Ghetto and converted to Christianity, adopted and came to America just before the War. Needless to say there was allot of shall I say lively conversation about if he was Jewish or Christian. This was one story I heard.
Unfortunately the mother had died 12 years before I met her son so there was no way I could get her story and no one in the family wanted to talk about her past.
Today my daughter is very interested in her Grandmother, who was she, where did she come from, was the story about her birth and adoption true or not. Who were her parents, and great grand parents.
Everyone is now dead, her father and his brother, all aunts and uncles, one whole side of her family shrouded in mystery. We do not have the money to hire a genealogy search, we are not sure about the spelling of the names, but we can start with her fathers birth certificate and work back.
Thank You Dutch, I have a few months free due to health problems and perhaps we can solve this problem of who my daughter is, and came from.
BTW, she came unglued when I went to the Hollicast Museum with out her, When I told her how I was removed from the Museum and sat on on the sidewalk crying and shaking like a small dog, she suggested that perhaps reincarnation is a fact.
