Berlin to Auschwitz

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Berlin, Germany Warsaw, Poland “OUR DEAD NEW BORN BABY | DEATH”   This rock was found at the Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetary in Warsaw, Poland. The cemetery was founded in 1806 and, after being destroyed during the German invasion of Poland, remains very overgrown and dilapidated only recently being restored for use by the small population of Jews remaining in Warsaw. Specifically, the stone was one of many rocks placed near a grave as a sign of respect and morning, as is custom in Jewish culture. The rock was laid at a symbolic grave founded and sponsored by Jack Fisner, a survivor of the Holocaust who lost all of his immediate and distant family, with the exception of his mother Zlatka, in the tragedy. Fisner sponsored the grave “In memory of one million Jewish children murdered by Nazi German barbarians, 1939-1945.”      Despite the fact that this stone was merely one of...