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A true Holocaust horror story - Sidney Glucksman "witnessed homicidal gas chambers, babies stuffed in bags & bashed against walls"

Sidney Glucksman is a Polish-born Jew, and has one hellavu Holohaux tale.

He lives by the motto "Never Forget."

Glucksman spent time at the Gross Rosen and Dachau "death camps."

He claims he "witnessed" people being "murdered in homicidal gas chambers disguised as showers."

Sidney says the crematoriums ran all day and night non-stop, filling the air with the smell of burning flesh.

He claims that the evil Germans would put babies in bags and bash them to death against concrete walls.

He can still hear the babies crying sometimes.

Sidney assures us "he saw this with his own eyes."

Glucksman now lives in Connecticut and travels around traumatizing young children with his tales of horror, reminding them to never forget, and that the Germans were "monsters."

The children sit in stunned silence as Sidney tells his tale.

As Sidney says, "whenever a school or university calls, I drop everything at my business and leave just to tell the story that other generations should never forget."

Note: Further down this page added information on how Glucksman in an interview brags how he after his liberation from Dachau, together with fellow Jewish ex-internees - with guns provided by the Americans, could wanton harass and kill Germans in the U.S. occupied German city of Munich!

Survivor tells of Holocaust horrors

Abbe Smith, New Haven Register, Conn.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
March 26, 2009

Mar. 26--WEST HAVEN -- At the age most kids enter high school, Polish-born Sidney Glucksman instead witnessed unspeakable atrocities from within the walls of a Nazi death camp.

One of the few Holocaust survivors left to tell firsthand the story of the extermination of 6 million Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II, Glucksman lives by the mantra: "Never forget."

At Notre Dame High School Wednesday, Glucksman shared horrific tales of watching women and children marched off to gas chambers, never to be seen again, and babies stuffed in bags and brutally murdered.

He survived typhoid, near starvation and brushes with death in two concentration camps.

While Notre Dame High School can't give Glucksman back his teenage years, on Wednesday, they gave him a symbol of the years he lost.

"If we could only have been at that school door to take you with us and save you, we would have," said Notre Dame President Brother James Branigan. "You are a brother to us and I want to honor you with a diploma from our high school."

And a little something extra from his friend, New Haven police Lt. Leo Bombalicki, a Notre Dame alumnus.

"Sidney never had a chance to go to high school, so I think he should have a varsity jacket from Notre Dame High School," Bombalicki said.

Glucksman beamed as he took the jacket and tried it on. "That's really worth more than a hundred million dollars. Thank you so much," he said.

The entire Notre Dame student body rose for a standing ovation and rolling applause.

The presentation of the diploma and varsity jacket were a surprise.

When he was invited to speak at Notre Dame, Glucksman did not hesitate before answering "yes."

"Whenever a school or university calls, I drop everything at my business and leave just to tell the story that other generations should never forget about," he said.

That story, for Glucksman, is a very personal one.

At 12 years old, Glucksman was a student at a school in Chrzanow, Poland, when Nazi soldiers invaded his school and rounded up the Jewish children. The year was 1940. The students were loaded onto trucks and taken away.

"They told us we would be back with our parents in the evening. That evening never came," he said.

The children slept outside and ate soup that consisted of slivers of potato floating in warm water.

He and the others were taken to Gross Rosen concentration camp where he was forced into labor and later transferred to Dachau concentration camp.

A young Glucksman watched as trains rolled in with box cars full of women and children packed tight as sardines.

"If you had to go to the bathroom, you did it standing up. If people died, they died standing up," he said.

He described for the students what he considers the worst scene he has witnessed in his lifetime. Nazi soldiers shaved the heads of women and children and told them they were going to take a shower. They were led to a gray building with two large doors. Brushes and soap sat on a shelf.

"We were waiting 15 minutes and they never came out. That's when we knew that was the first batch of the dead gassed people," he recalled.

The crematorium went day and night without interruption. Smoke came out of it all the time and the camp stunk of burning human bones and flesh.

Glucksman saw babies stuffed into bags and soldiers swinging the bags against concrete walls, killing the babies.

"They were crying. Many times, I still hear them cry," he said.

The gymnasium was silent at Glucksman told his story.

"Just monsters could do something I saw with my own eyes," he said.

Despite the horrific images etched into Glucksman's memory, he managed to make a happy life with wife, Libby, who he met after being liberated from Dachau in 1945.

Four years later, he and Libby moved to New Haven where Glucksman opened Sidney's Tailoring & Cleaning on Chapel Street in New Haven. The couple raised two daughters.

Then in 2000, Glucksman helped the United States testify against one of his former prison guards Theodor Szehinskyj, a retired machinist in Philadelphia, who the U.S. Department of Justice said worked as a former SS guard at the Gross Rosen concentration camp.

Now Glucksman is recording his life history in a documentary called "Threads" by James Campbell.

As the last generation of Holocaust survivors begins to fade, Glucksman wants to ensure his story and the stories of millions of Jews who lived through or died during history's worst genocide are remembered forever.

"You just never forget. I'd like to say to all the children, all the people, they should never forget. There are less and less of us alive," he said.

Notre Dame history teacher Richard Antonetti is doing his part to keep the story alive. Antonetti teaches a Holocaust class that as many as 150 students take each year.

"We have to remember because what's happening today in parts of the world -- Darfur, Rwanda, Cambodia -- the events that took place are forgotten unless we read and learn about them," he said.

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Copyright (c) 2009, New Haven Register, Conn.

Source: http://www.cjp.org/page.aspx?id=197307

Article: "Survivor tells of Holocaust horrors"

Sidney now has his "documentary" about his tale out, called "Threads" [1]

Important Addendum:

The University of South Florida has a project recording interviews with "Holocaust survivors".

On October 12, 2008, Sidney Glucksman was interviewed by fellow Jew Michael Hirsh, as part of this witness documentation ("Digital Collection - Holocaust & Genocide Studies Center Oral Histories").

Glucksman's oral testimony document is published as a PDF-file at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1062&context=hgstud_oh alternatively at: https://digital.lib.usf.edu//SFS0022102/00001
But we also have kept a copy for safe keeping.

Interestingly in the "Holocaust" studies interview the words "gas chamber"/"gassing" is not mentioned by Glucksman, although he retells the story of the undressing of mothers who were told to "get showered up", but who "never came back", as a story from the Gross Rosen camp. But the explicit mention of gassings is now conveniently avoided.

Then comes a rather shocking statement on events in Munich after his liberation from the Dachau concentration camp by U.S. soldiers.

Sidney Glucksman (p.19-20):
"Yes, because I—you know, it was maybe a month after I was liberated. Me and a few other friends who were Jewish, we moved together into Munich after the liberation, because we wanted to get out from Dachau. And then while I was still in Dachau after the liberation, I would go into Munich once a week or twice a week on a bicycle, which was like eighteen kilometers, and peddle to Munich just to meet up with some other prisoners. And then we moved in, in Munich.

We saw a house; we would throw out the German family. We all had guns, you know; the American soldiers gave us guns. And we were not afraid to kill a German. We were so hate—we were full of hate. So, we all had guns, and we went into a house and said to leave everything and to get out of the house, we’re taking over the house. Nobody would stop us. We could do everything we wanted maybe for three, four weeks, even kill in the street, Germans."

This Jewish story on revenge spree and wanton killing of Germans after the end of the hostilities, should be compared with the similar story from Elie Wiesel on the Jews of the Buchenwald camp after the liberation, that we have reproduced in the article: Elie Wiesel: Raping German girls: a frivolous dereliction of the obligation to fulfill the "historical commandment of revenge".

Here Wiesel, in the Yiddish version of his text, writes:

"Early the next day, Jewish boys ran off to Weimar to steal clothing and potatoes. And to rape German girls [un tsu fargvaldikn daytshe shikses]. The historical commandment of revenge was not fulfilled."

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