Along with run-ins with Dr. Josef Mengele, smothering
children, to stop their cries revealing Jews' hiding places,
is a very common tale amongst Ho£ocaustians.
Here's quite a lot of examples:
Rabbi Shimon Efrati of Bessarabia, was "deported to Siberia during the war"
(so the Russians did evacuate Jews deep into Russia). He later stated that a Jew
hiding in a Warsaw bunker who smothered his baby with a pillow, to prevent
it's cries being heard by the Germans, had acted legitimately.
Polish Jew, Aleksandra Berlowicz, talks of a baby smothering story in the Warsaw
Ghetto, possibly the one famously referred to by Rabbi Shimon Efrati
"She gave birth in the hiding place to a child whose first cry was smothered
by a pillow. The danger to everyone was too great. The newborn had to be
sacrificed in order to save the others (but, in any case, not for long)."
Writing in February 1943, Polish Jew, Mordehai Tennenbojm-Tamaroff indicates that
smothering babies for crying was a common occurrence in the Bialystok Ghetto
"Smothered babies are taken out of the hiding places-they started
crying during the searches and were smothered."
The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945 (1990)
smothering babies for crying was a common occurrence in the Bialystok Ghetto
"Smothered babies are taken out of the hiding places-they started
crying during the searches and were smothered."
The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945 (1990)
Mordecai Paldiel writes in the The Path of the Righteous of the Moses-esque
baby saving story of Vala Tokarski from the Minsk Ghetto in Belarus:
"There had been too many cases of babies being smothered so that a bunker's
location would not be revealed by the sound of an infant crying."
Polish Jew, Professor Yaffa Eliach
"kept remembering cries of her
infant
brother as they hid in Vilna until at last he was smothered
by adults who feared that he might give them away."
Polish Jew, Betty Potash Gold, regurgitates her Ho£ocaust tales twice weekly
to Ohio school kids. She claims to have witnessed her cousin kill her
two-year-old daughter, to prevent the child's cries alerting the Nazis to
the 16 people hidden behind the false partition in her father's shed.
Polish Jews, the Chiger family, spent WW2 in the sewers of the city of Lvov.In 1947 whilst only 11 Krystal Chiger claimed of a Jewess hiding in their sewer:
"One lady gave birth to a child. They covered this child with a washbasin.
It suffocated and was thrown into the Poltwa (a river)."
Karl Schapiro and 16 other Polish Jews spent most of WW2 in a hole under a haystack,"everyone managed to survive, except for an infant who had to be
suffocated by its mother because it made too much noise."
Polish Jew, Henry Freidman, his mother, brother & his female teacher (?) - spentmuch of WW2 hiding in a barn, in a space where only 4 people could sit down. His
mother was due to give birth, they voted on what to do, "Henry voted to kill the
baby." "The teacher suffocated the baby girl even as she helped deliver it."
Polish Jew, Rose Silberberg-Skier and her family spent WW2 in a "chicken coop"