23rd Psalm- a Holocaust Memoir
23rd Psalm- A Holocaust Memoir The Holocaust and war was no joking matter. Millions were executed both intentionally and unintentionally. Men, women, husbands, wives, parents, grandparents, and children; The SS didn’t care. Nor did the Poles, Germans, or anyone at all for that matter. Nobody cared about the “dirty Jews”, the “filthy dogs”, or the “swine dogs”. There were so many insults that it’s impossible to name them all. People were malnourished, lonely, and hopeless. This torture was part of the everyday life of a young man named Lucek Salzman (George Lucius Salton). This boy lost his parents at age 14 and his brother at age 15. He was beaten, he had paint poured over him, his latter was kicked by a German soldier (this ended up causing him to have an infected leg). What this man went through as a child was brutal, but the fascinating part is that he never gave up and he knew that he had a chance. Lucek Salzman had hope in the end. Lucjan (Lucek) Salzman was born on January 7, 1928. He was like any other boy; he went to school and hung out with his friends. Lucek had a large, close-knit family and they would always celebrate holidays together and have fun. He grew up in a small polish town name Tyczyn. He said “as I grew up, I grew to know and love my town”. But as time went by, it was no longer his town. He no longer had a place to call home. 50 years later, he still had a house but that is not to be mistaken for a home. For clarification, home is where you grow up and where your family is, whereas a hose is just a building. One of the first signs of the tough times to come was when Lucek’s school teacher told the class that Jews did not have an origin; he said that they’re mongrels. I can’t even imagine how he felt. Nowadays we expect adults to be nice to us; we expect them to be there for us if we need help. So I always get baffled when I read this. It then broke my heart when he was told that Jewish kids couldn’t go to school. In early May 1941, a