“This silence cannot be tolerated any longer”
It's August 11, 1942. Transports depart daily from the Warsaw Ghetto for the Treblinka extermination camp. The Umschagplatz, where those sentenced to death in primitive gas chambers fueled by tank engine exhaust fumes, are gathered, resembles a vestibule to hell. "Today marks the third week since the terrible slaughter began," wrote Abraham Lewin, a teacher and member of the secret group "Oneg Shabbat," in his diary. On this day, on the so-called Aryan side of Warsaw […]