Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

the dark Soviet style of old in Putin’s Russia, it becomes ever more certain
that the murder of thousands of men such as Franciszek Polniaszek.
Tadeusz Gasiorowski and, indeed, Jakub Wajda will go unpunished. So
the task that remains is clear.
‘One of the last things we have to do,’ says Andrzej, ‘is to keep the
memory of what happened to our fathers for future generations. With my
son and daughter I went back to Kharkov where my father was killed.
‘In the cemetery there is a big bell half-submerged underground, so when
it rings the sound goes into the ground where they are still buried. My son
and I rang it and listened. And both of us cried.’
And as he recalls the knell clanging dolefully among Polish bones,
Andrzej Polniaszek cries again.
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