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A Boy Victim of Holocaust Wrote on Facebook

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.

10 Americans Put Into Jail for Kidnapping Haitian Children

Ten Americans was put into jail in Haiti for trying to bring 33 Haitian children abroad without permission from the government or legal documents.They are arrested for kidnapping children.

These American missionaries consist of five men and women. They are working for a charity organization which is in Idaho, US, New Life Children’s Refuge. They are arrested for kidnapping children who are 2 months up to 12 years old.

The Haitian government quickly announced that the missionaries should be accused for kidnapping. But according to the missionaries’ lawyer, there are possibilities for them to be deported back to US to be judged there.

Those ten Americans were arrested at the border of Republic Dominica on Friday, January 29th. They keep insisting that they don’t have any relation to children trading.

Those missionaries argued that they wanted to bring those children into a hotel on the coast of the Republic Dominica, which made the place of orphans by two members of the missionaries, Laura Silsby and Charisa Coulter, who were also arrested.

Silsby stated, those children didn’t have legal documents including the passport or permission to leave Haiti. But, she also added that she never imagined that it would be the problem. “I just want to do a right thing,” she emphasized, as quoted from Telegraph, Tuesday (2/2/2010).

After the massive earthquake in Haiti on January 12th, Silsby and her friends planned to save Haitian children who are abandoned on streets, field hospitals or druined orphanage.

According to Silsby, 33 children come from an orphanage in Haiti. According to the orphanage staffs who are taking care of those children at the side of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, some children complained that they didn’t want to leave Haiti.