Redemption of WWII

Fifteen relatively large cities in eastern Poland were stuffed with 350 million Jews. Most of these Jews were from the bourgeoisie, and the family situation was similar to that of the Pillmans. 【】Of course, these Jews will also have some richer people.These people can enjoy delicious and calorie-rich food in the only restaurant in the ghetto when most people can't eat enough.

Half a million people were crammed into the ghetto in the eastern part of Warsaw, where each person could only buy food containing 50 calories a day with a voucher.We all know that an adult needs more than 126 calories to 1600 calories a day.And the food supplies that the Germans allocated to the Jewish ghettos amounted to less than a tenth of what the people needed.When the German team besieged Leningrad, the food provided by the trapped citizens of Leningrad was 2000 calories.The Jews living in the ghetto struggled for one thing every day, and that was to stay alive.

A well-known pianist, Pearlman soon found work in the only restaurant in the ghetto.This job is to play piano music for the businessmen who make a lot of money on the black market of food.That's basically the best job you can get.Pillman wanted the piano seven hours a day, and was paid ten ounces of bread and two sugar cubes, and the owner of the restaurant allowed him to keep five per cent from the tips given by the guests.Pillman gave his mother the food and all the money, and the family scraped by.

The lack of food caused a large number of deaths among the Jews in the ghetto. Pillman had to tightly cover his nose when he went to work every day to avoid breathing the smell of corpses on the roadside.Almost everyone was hungry all the time, so many people sneaked out of the ghetto and went outside in search of food.But unfortunately, what they had no way to meet were only the white eyes and cold reports from the Poles.Those who sneaked out of the ghetto were finally caught by the police and hanged directly on the road between the ghetto and other neighborhoods.All of a sudden, the whole road was filled with a gloomy and terrifying smell.Only those hanging on the temporary gallows dangled in the air with the wind from time to time.

But death did not stop the Jews in the urban ghettos from going out of the ghettos to find food. For a while, there were sharp sirens and dull gunshots everywhere around Warsaw.The entire Polish capital is in a precarious state every day.This state is simply too unfavorable to the rule of the Nazis, and it is really not conducive to the long-term stability of the occupied areas.So soon the Germans came up with a new method. This time, the Germans built a five-meter-high fence between the city's ghetto and other blocks, and they also installed electricity on the wall. In addition, guards on duty have been added on every street corner or in relatively open areas.

In this way, if those ordinary people want to get out of the ghetto, it will be difficult for them to ascend to the sky.However, even under such harsh conditions, the restaurant where Pillman is located has not closed down. The owner of the restaurant can get a lot of food from the outside by buying off the guards, and runs the restaurant as always. A group of people with a way, no matter what other people want, they can magically get it in from outside the ghetto.These people also have a very common hobby, that is, love of music.Every time these people come to the restaurant to eat, they will greet Pillman who is playing the piano very friendly, and Pillman will also respond to the friendliness with a smile.

The time came to [-]. From the beginning of this year, the Germans began to arrest people everywhere in the ghetto.They don't distinguish between men, women and children, as long as you don't have a blue work qualification card, you will be arrested.Every day, ten military trucks would park outside the ghetto, and then the Waffen SS soldiers would rush into the ghetto to arrest people.At the beginning, ten trucks were very easy to catch, and often in less than half an hour, ten trucks would be fully loaded.Of course, some people tried to escape or resist, but these behaviors drew the shooting and killing of those SS soldiers without exception.

The character of the Germans to keep time is very commendable. They open the gate of the ghetto at ten o'clock every morning and start arresting people.No matter it is windy or snowy, the time has never changed, and it has never been late, nor will it cancel the action.After the Germans arrested people for a few days, they opened the gates of the ghetto again at ten o'clock in the morning to arrest people.But this time the Germans were surprised to find that the street that was supposed to be bustling with people turned out to be empty, with not even a single person in sight.All the Jews already knew that the Germans would come to arrest people on time at this time, so all the people hid at home.

The Germans walked around the Jewish ghetto three times without even catching a single person.Can the Jews escape the catastrophe by hiding? Of course not, those SS soldiers who could not catch anyone rushed into the Jewish house under the order of the commander who became angry.This time the Germans don't care whether you have a blue card for work, just arrest people.One day three months ago, the Germans broke down the door of the Pillmans' house and took the Pillmans.A family of six, including Pillman, was held at gunpoint by German soldiers and walked to the car parked at the door.However, ten trucks were full when there were still a few people before the Pillmans got on the car.The Pearlmans narrowly escaped death.

From the beginning of the year to the end of the year, the Germans kept taking away ten truckloads of people every day.Within a year, the ghetto with a population of 50 lost a fifth of its population.These people never came back, and no one knew where they were taken.But there was a young man who managed to escape. According to him, the Jews who were taken from the various ghettos were sent to the death camps.Many people were massacred in the camp every day, but he couldn't explain why people died but there were no bodies.Almost everyone did not believe the young man.Some even wanted to report the young man to the Germans.The young man had no choice but to escape from the Jewish ghetto in a hurry.

The apartment where the Pillmans lived had not been visited by Germans since the Germans captured them.And everyone seems to have discovered this, the Germans never go to places where they have already arrested people to arrest people again.Because that's just too inefficient.And hundreds of thousands of Jews are indeed enough for the Germans to catch hundreds of hundreds of them every day for several years, and there is no need for the Germans to mobilize their troops for a few missing fish.As a result, many Jews moved to places where the Germans had captured people in order to avoid being captured by the Germans.

A group of young people moved downstairs from the Pillman's house. This group of young people held meetings in the house every day. Pillman didn't know what these people were doing.But Pearlman knew that one of these young men was often seen at the restaurant where he worked.These young people are very polite when they see Pillman, they will take off their hats and salute, and they will send some butter and some bread to Pillman's mother from time to time.

One night, Pearlman, who was sleeping, suddenly heard the sound of a rushing motor outside.Then I heard the clicking sound of German soldiers' leather boots trampling on the ground from downstairs.Pillman stood secretly in front of the dark house, looked down at the street, and saw the Germans escorting several young people downstairs and walking forward.Before going far, the Germans opened fire.Then the Germans placed the bodies of those young people in the middle of the road, and drove them over with a truck.Pillman heard a young man who was not dead screamed in pain after being run over by a truck.This cry spread throughout the streets and alleys of the entire ghetto in the quiet night.

Early the next morning, when the Jewish Affairs Committee sent people to collect the corpses, they went to these young people and wrote "this is the fate of disobedient people" with paint, and some mimeographed leaflets were scattered on the ground.Pearlman also knew that the young people living downstairs turned out to be some resistance elements.

The winter of [-] was indeed not easy, and the Pillman family was evading capture by the Germans in fear.On the one hand, he has to work hard for his own survival.There are very few opportunities to get food in the ghetto now. The food given by the Germans every day is simply a drop in the bucket, and there is nowhere to get the fuel for heating.In the past, the Pillman family could still burn some dead branches picked up from outside, but now there are not even a leaf in the entire ghetto, let alone branches.Everything that can be burned has been taken home and used as fuel for heating.Some people have already started burning wooden furniture for heating.But Pillman's mother did not agree with burning her own furniture. Pillman's mother believed that burning furniture for heating was a barbaric act, and all intelligent people should keep a respectful distance from this kind of behavior.Pearlman's father deeply supported his mother's behavior.The whole family survived the long winter by huddling together.

Just ten days ago, the Germans did not come to arrest people for some reason.This made the Jews who were used to being frightened at ten o'clock every day feel even more frightened. All the Jews thought that the Germans were planning some new terrorist act.No Jew could sleep from day to night.Peace, absolute peace, peace makes all Jews feel hopeless.After another two days, the desperate mood of the Jews could not help reaching its peak, and many people were no longer willing to hide at home and endure this hopeless peace.They ran to the entrances and exits of the ghettos, shouting loudly, 'Take me away. '

Normally, the SS soldiers at the door would be ecstatic, but today the SS soldiers simply ignored these Jews who were begging for death.Not only that, but when providing food to the Jews every day, they actually provided the Jews with three times the food in normal days.

All the Jews don't know why the Germans are doing this. Before this mystery is solved, the Jews seem to be much less interested in food.There are many people who can't help losing their appetite when faced with the bread and potatoes they have been thinking about day and night.

The absence of arrests and the tripling of the food supply did not bring hope to the Jews, on the contrary they plunged the Jews into deeper fear.