Chaim Rumkowski’s ‘Give me your children’ speech is the most disturbing speech I’ve ever read. I came across it in the Penguin Book of Twentieth Century speeches about five years ago, and it’s horrifying — an anguished plea by Chaim Rumkowski, the Nazi appointed Chief Elder of the Łódź ghetto in Poland, for parents to hand over children under ten to the…
"I’m lucky — at age of 98, I’m still able to do what I promised to do"
Abram Goldberg promised his mother on the train platform at Auschwitz that if he lived he'd never stop telling the story of what happened.
