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Agnieszka Holland, film director
Barbara Engelking, professor
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About the book by Agnieszka Holland, film director, and Barbara Engelking, professor. |
Mitt och andras liv
Agnieszka Holland, film director
Barbara Engelking, professor
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About the book by Agnieszka Holland, film director, and Barbara Engelking, professor. |
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Antena: ilustrowany tygodnik dla wszystkich R.5, nr 17, 1938. |
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Antena: ilustrowany tygodnik dla wszystkich R.5, nr 17, 1938, str. 9. |
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Korczak pisze: Wypadło nie to, czego chciałem, Chciałem dać wzór uczniowi seminarjum, jak notować spostrzeżenia i dopełniać komentarzami. A napisałem dla siebie wzór, jak z drobnego dostrzeżonego momentu—pytania dziecięcego— przechodzić do zagadnień wielorakich i ogólnych.
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Numerous children from the Piotrków Trybunalski ghetto were liberated in April 1945. In four months, they lived in the Kinderheim located in Bergen-Belsen, in Barrack 211. |
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Marianek-Meir Blum. He arrived in Sweden as part of the UNRRA White Boat Mission. |
Moral Clarity in a Time of Darkness
To the Prime Ministers and Presidents who have called on Israel to “stop the war” in Gaza, while minimizing or sidestepping the atrocities committed on October 7 by Hamas and the ongoing agony of Israeli hostages imprisoned beneath Gaza:
Your words have consequences.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists invaded Israel and committed acts of unimaginable cruelty:
Over 1,200 innocent Israelis were slaughtered that day.
This was not a “clash,” not a “response,” and not a “cycle of violence.”
It was a genocidal terrorist massacre.
And yet, in the face of this barbarity, many of you—leaders of free and democratic nations—have responded not with moral clarity, but with moral confusion. You have urged Israel to “de-escalate,” to “show restraint,” or to agree to a “ceasefire,” as though this were a symmetrical conflict between two equal sides. It is not.
Israel is a democracy defending itself from a barbaric, jihadist terror group that uses its own civilians as human shields, hijacks humanitarian aid, and deliberately manufactures suffering and starvation to manipulate global opinion against Israel. Hamas intercepts aid trucks, seizes the food, and sells it to starving Palestinians at extortionate prices—all while filming Gaza’s misery for the world to blame Israel.
Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda Minister in World War II, would have admired their tactics. The tragic part is how easily the Western world—leaders, press, and populations—fall for it. Goebbels must be laughing in his grave…
Let me ask plainly:
What would you do if your nation suffered what Israel endured on October 7?
History tells us the answer. You would respond forcefully and without apology. And rightly so.
Many of your countries—Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and much of Western Europe—were built through conquest and bloodshed. Your histories include:
I do not raise this to shame you, but to ask:
By what moral standard do you now judge Israel’s right to defend itself from annihilation?
When you call on Israel to “stop,” do you also acknowledge:
If not, then your statements are not about peace—they are about politics.
And that is a moral failure.
Criticism of Israel is legitimate. Hypocrisy is not.
When your outrage ignores context and condemns only one side, it ceases to be justice—it becomes complicity.
Israel, like any nation, has the right to defend its people.
That is all we ask: fairness, honesty, and moral courage.
History will record how the world responded in this moment.
The Jewish people will never forget.
Will your voice have stood for truth—or for fear?
For principle—or for convenience?
In the face of terrorism, silence is complicity.
In the face of hypocrisy, history is unforgiving.
Sincerely,
Meir Blum (a Holocaust survivor)
Meir Blum (a Holocaust survivor) and Roman Romuald Wasserman Wroblewski (second generation) in Israel in 2024. |
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Julius Maslovat in Sweden. |