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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (6113)	4/20/2004 2:07:28 PM
From: rrufff	Respond to of 6945

You could debate yourself en masse. Just as you will not move from your land, because you feel you obtained good title from your next immediate "owners", Israel will not go away, even if your mistaken belief were true, that they stole the land from a temporary ancient occupant (to use your justification for not looking back to the Native Americans for corporeal hereditaments.) Continue to debate yourself with semantics en masse. You are quite a mass debater.

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (6113)	4/20/2004 3:52:14 PM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

The Life of Edzia Abbe wiesenthal.org Edzia, one of four children born to Carola and Israel Abbe, grew up in Lodz, Poland. Her father owned a haberdashery store, where he sold hats, gloves, and other accessories. She had one sisters and two brothers. A large, fairly liberal city, Lodz was home to over 233,000 Jews. It was a major center of the textile industry. Its diverse population of Jews, Poles and Germans lived together in relative peace. When the Germans occupied Lodz in September 1939, Edzia was a thirteen year-old schoolgirl. Anti-Jewish restrictions were immediately enacted. Jews were forbidden to congregate for religious services, they were subject to curfew, their radios were confiscated, and they were forced to wear the yellow star. In addition, Jews were barred from most professions, and all Jewish communal institutions were ordered to disband. On February 8, 1940, Edzia and her family, along with all of Lodz's Jews, were forced to live in a run-down part of the city. On May 1, 1940, the overcrowded ghetto was closed off. Living conditions were horrendous. There was no heat, little food or medicine, and inadequate sanitation. People fell dead in the street from starvation, disease and exposure. Still, the basic appearance of normal inner-city life was maintained. Schools and hospitals still functioned. The Germans constantly harassed the Jewish residents of the ghetto, randomly seizing people on the streets, raiding their apartments, and subjecting them to horrendous indignities. People were shot for the slightest reason. Young children often became the sole support of thier families. They would smuggle themselves out of the ghetto in order to find food and bring it back to their starving parents, brothers and sisters. Edzia's older brother, Natan, was shot in late 1940, by a German soldier at the ghetto gate. He was sixteen years old. Her mother died of starvation in early 1941. Fifteen year-old Edzia was seized and sent to forced labor in a German-run textile factory in Augsburg. Conditions there were horrible. There was little food and the workers were constantly tortured. In May 1943, the factory was evacuated. The Jewish workers were sent to an unknown destination and were never heard from again. Edzia was seventeen years old.

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (6113)	4/20/2004 3:59:55 PM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

The Life of Alinka Lilka wiesenthal.org Alinka, the daughter of Lilka (Cukierman), was five years old when the Germans occupied her city in September 1939. Warsaw was a large, cosmopolitan city, home to Europe's largest Jewish community. Her grandfather was highly involved in the community. The family lived in an affluent area. Alinka loved to play with her dolls and stuffed animals. Part of a large, loving, highly educated family, Alinka had a comfortable early childhood. In October 1940, Alinka and her family, along with all the other Jewish residents of Warsaw, were forced to leave their homes and live in a run-down area of the city. On November 15, walls were built around the ghetto, cutting it off from the rest of the world. Over 265,000 people were packed into apartments on 73 streets. Lacking money and forbidden to work, most residents were quickly impoverished. Food, medicine and heat were inadequate, and thousands died of starvation, exposure and disease. Children risked their lives to smuggle food into the ghetto for their families. Amidst all the horrors of the ghetto, underground schools and other cultural events were organized. In July 1942, the Germans began rounding up and deporting ghetto residents in massive raids. Few were exempt. Packed like cattle into freight cars, they were sent to the Treblinka death camp, where they were immediately taken to the gas chambers and murdered. By September, only 60,000 Jews, mostly young men and women, were left. The last remnants of their families, they resolved to fight the Germans. On Passover eve, April 19, 1943, the Germans began what they believed to be the final round up and deportation. Instead, they were met with organized, armed resistance. The Germans began systematically burning buildings, trying to force people out of hiding. Armed mostly with home-made grenades and other incendiary devices, the young Jewish fighters fought the Germans, house by house, for almost a month. The ghetto was turned into one great burning torch. On May 16 it was over. Nothing is known about Alinka or her family after they were forced into the ghetto and cut off from the world. No trace has ever been found.