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Romi Cohn - Letters from the ghetto

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Romi Cohn - Letters from the ghetto
Romi Cohn - Letters from the ghetto
Transcript: Well, the Jews were sent to Poland and different places. The Germans made them write letters, very nice letters, that says, we arrive now in Lublin, or so on, and it's a wonderful, it's a nice spring day, and it's out so nice, and people are so nice, and there's plenty food, and it's a beautiful place, and they wrote very interesting letters, very enticing letters. And this was, that's what they made them write, except some of the Jews, they outsmart the Germans, and they wrote this beautiful letter, which was, each one of them was censored by the, by the, by the Gestapo. They said, they were signed it, and instead of signing "Judy" or so and so, they signed "Hakel Sheker." This is a signature, so they think his name is Hakel Sheker. But hakel sheker in Hebrew means "everything is a lie." Nothing, there's nothing, there's nothing true, there's no truth in it.
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