STOP!

Sunday, 31 May 2009
STOP - A Momentous Quarter
“Remembering the Past, Shaping the Future”.
Our Comenius meeting is full of joy but there was time when everybody was silent. On our way to Krakow we stopped for a quarter at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Our teachers wanted us to be in person in that terrifying place just to become witnesses. Such a tragic place in the middle of Europe should always be remembered. We must do our best to keep peace. Three names come to our minds when we have history lessons about the Holocaust: Raul Wallenberg, a Swede, Henryk Slawik, a Pole and Jozsef Antall, a Hungarian. During the WW II they all worked in Budapest and rescued hundreds of Jews and their compatriots. Slawik and Wallenberg paid with their lives for their humanitarian actions. The three heroes were awarded the title “Righteous Among the Nations” at the Yad Vashem Institute. In Poland Slawik is sometimes called a Polish Wallenberg.
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