i saw a story today in a newspaper about an 87 year old woman from Poland. At four years old she and her family were in a ghetto. But at some point her family realized they needed to escape so they got out and went around to the local village asking for refuge. Every door they knocked on was slammed in their face until they reached one farm family who took them in their attic for two days and then because of the danger the farmer moved them to the upper part of the barn where they stayed for 2.5 years. Then when the Nazis were closing in, the farmer told them they needed to leave the barn and go into the forest. They were there for a few days, but starvation drove the mother and one son to go back into the village and ask for a piece of bread. Then this daughter who stayed nearby to watch saw her mother and brother gunned down by one anti-semtite farmer. Then she and her remaining brothers went back to the original famer and he took them in again until the end of the war.
Of course, if that farmer who took in this Jewish family had been discovered, it would have been an immediate death sentence for him and his family. Be kind.
