THE HORRIBLE EXECUTION OF HENOCH KORNFELD AND BLIMCIA LISCHE IN GAS CHAMBER.
The Horrible Execution Of Henoch Kornfeld and Blimcia Lische In Gas Chamber.
Cousins Henoch Kornfeld and Blimcia Lische were born a month apart in Kolbuszowa, Poland, and were raised among many aunts, uncles, and cousins. Their uncle, Norman Salsitz (Naftali Saleschutz) remembered them as “beautiful children, happy children, playing around like children did.”
In the ghetto, the children mimicked what they saw. Henoch would pretend to be a vicious German police commander, asking Blimcia and their friends, "Are you a Jew?" They would reply “Yes,” Henoch would pretend to shoot them, and they would fall over, pretending to have been killed.
In November 1941, about 100 miles from Kolbuszowa, construction began on a killing center on the outskirts of Bełżec, Poland, on a major rail line. Bełżec was one of three killing centers linked to Operation Reinhard, the SS plan to murder almost two million Jews living in the German-administered territory of occupied Poland called the General Government. Killing operations in Bełżec began on a mass scale in March 1942.
In June 1942, Blimcia, Henoch, and their families were deported to the Rzeszow ghetto and then to the Bełżec killing center in July. They were all gassed. Blimcia and Henoch were three and a half years old.
How could any human being do that to little children,the perpetrators were inhumane
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In the fall of 1942, a young researcher, Eva Justin, spent six weeks at an orphanage in southwest Germany, living among the children. Justin had previously worked under Dr. Robert Ritter, whose findings helped facilitate the persecution and mass murder of thousands of Roma and Sinti, then called "Gypsies."
As she pursued a doctorate in anthropology at the University of Berlin, Justin's hypothesis was that Roma and Sinti, as represented by this group of about 40 children, were inferior and could not be assimilated into German society.
While Justin's research was still progressing, the December 1942 so-called “Auschwitz decree” ordered those of so-called mixed “Gypsy” blood to be deported to Auschwitz. Justin needed her test subjects to remain alive while she finished her work, so they were initially spared.
As soon as she earned her doctorate in spring 1944, arrangements were made for the children to be deported to Auschwitz. On this day in August 1944, the “Gypsy camp” at the Auschwitz complex was shut down and nearly all of the children from the research project were gassed with the rest of the Sinti and Roma. They were among the 250,000 to 500,000 Roma and Sinti murdered by the Nazis and their allies and collaborators.
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