Humanity tragedy, the Holocaust, the massacre of the Jews by the Nazi was believed to cause many victim. A child victim of the tragedy wrote on Facebook. What did he write?

Quoted from the Telegraph, Friday (5/2/2010), the Holocaust victim boy’s name is Henio Zytomirski. The people believe that the six-year-old boy and his father were killed in death camps early in 1943.

Now to memorize Henio, Lublin Polish citizens created an account on Facebook. In this account,  Henio’s photo is shown  which was taken in 1939. Around 3000 people have become his Facebook friend.

In one picture of Henio, there is a book written in Hebrew-language with Poland captions.
“September akan segera tiba. Aku akan pergi sekolah. Aku penasaran seperti apa sih rasanya di sekolah. Aku sedikit takut. Ayah bilang, tidak perlu takut. Ia guru. Hari ini aku melihat bukuku,” isi caption tersebut
“September will come soon enough. I’m going to school. I wonder what it’s like to be in school. I’m a little scared. My father said, no need to fear. He is a teacher. Today I see my book,” that’s what the caption’s content.

Of course it’s not Henio’s writings, but created by his relatives.

“Henio is a victim of Nazi’s cruelty. Because he was killed, he could not write his own testimony. We try to guess what are the content of his testimonies,” wrote a cousin of Henio, Neta Zytomirski Avidar who was involved in the making of the site.

However, some people questioned whether its ethical or not to write the words as if spoken by someone who had recently died.
“This is the act of pretending to be someone who has died. We can not really sure what he (the dead) think, say, do,” said Adam Kopciowski, a historian of Lublin.

On the other hand there are people who think that making memories for the victims of the Holocaust is legal.

February 5th, 2010 Subscribe to the RSS feed!