#Bestof@022: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Tree of Theresienstadt. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness (Originally posted October 22, 2022)
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#Bestof@022: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Tree of Theresienstadt. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness (Originally posted October 22, 2022)
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/holocaust-childrens-tree-descendant-to-be-planted-in-nyc-687647
"In 1943, a teacher bribed a guard to smuggle a sapling in, which the children planted to celebrate Tu Bi'shvat.
"Ultimately, only 200 of the 15,000 Jewish children imprisoned in Theresienstadt survived the Holocaust, and the survivors marked their liberation on the tree with a sign, reading “As the branches of this tree, so the branches of our people!”
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| 0:50.2 | It is a very special tree in January 1943. |
| 0:55.0 | Irma Lausher was a teacher at the station stop concentration camp in Czechslovakia. |
| 0:59.4 | She smuggled the tree into the camp so the Jewish children there could celebrate the |
| 1:04.2 | Jewish holiday, the Arbor Day in a secret ceremony and they used their water rations to |
| 1:09.6 | nurture this happening. |
| 1:10.9 | There were 15,000 Jewish children in prison in triage and stopped and only 200 survived. |
| 1:16.7 | The tree was still standing afterwards when a time of liberation and a sign was put at |
| 1:21.6 | its base as a symbol of resilience. |
| 1:25.4 | Branches of the tree were then, by the way, buried alongside Mrs. Lausher who survived |
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