hmmm.... takie cos sie wlasnie na cnn.com pojawilo. moze
jednak nie jest as tak zle jak to coponiektorzy zdaja sie
sugerowac...
konczac tym optymistycznym akcentem stary rok a oczekujac na
nowy
lukasz
ps. tak na marginesie - odkad w hameryce siedze (a bedzie juz,
zgroza, prawie 8 lat) ani razu nie udalo mi sie uslyszec
Polish joke czy jakiegokolwiek badz przytyku do tego ze
z pl.u jestem...
> (CNN) -- Genia Melzer was destined to die at the
>hands of the Nazis, but the Jewish teen-ager -- now a great-
>grandmother -- owes her life to a "righteous gentile" named
>Julian Bilecki. After 55 years, a grateful Genia got to say
>thanks. Again.
> When she was 17 in her native Poland, Genia's entire family
>was decimated by German troops during World War II. People
>were being taken away and never seen again.
>"The only reason was because we were Jewish," she told CNN.
>"I lost uncles, aunts, my brother, cousins and all my
>friends."
> The young girl and others in her town ran off, but when their
>hiding place was discovered, their tormentors hauled them
>into a shack, guns drawn. Recalling the moment brings back
>the horror for Genia.
> "I lay down on the floor with my head down, and my little
>cousin, 9 years old, lay down on my right side," she says,
>her voice quivering. "They started shooting, but I wasn't
>shot."
>
>
>'They thought I was dead'
>
>But the nightmare wasn't over.
> "They thought I was dead ... but when ... a little girl
>coughed, they came with an ax and started chopping."
> Genia survived the second assault, too, still pretending to
>be dead.
> "They took us to this (mass) grave and they (threw) all the
>people (into it) and I was on top."
> Covered with blood, she ran into a forest and hid - a young
>woman alone, desperate to live.
> "The willpower to survive was so strong, even under those
>circumstances."
> Julian Bilecki, himself a teen-ager at the time, made that
>survival possible.
> As millions of Jews perished in Europe, he and his brother,
>Roman, stood in the way of the Nazis, hiding 23 people,
>including Genia, in their home.
>
>
>'It was like heaven'
>
> "They were afraid. (They) came to my house and asked for
>help," he remembers. "We dug a hole in the ground and made a
>roof with branches and covered it with dirt. We burned wood
>and cooked only at night. It's hard to believe we all lived
>through that terrible time."
> When the Bilecki brothers visited the dark bunker "it was
>like heaven," Genia says.
> Now, heaven has come again. More than half a century after
>the ordeal, the Jewish survivor and her Christian protector -
>a righteous gentile as he is called by the Jews - were
>reunited this month in New York by the Jewish Foundation for
>the Righteous, which honored him for his humanity.
> Once forced to see each other in darkness and fear, they were
>together again - like family.
> Genia says she can never repay the gift she received 55 years
>ago. "Only God," she adds, can do that.
>
>Correspondent Maria Hinojosa contributed to this report.
