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and buried Jewish people, as well as the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. That museum revealed what life was like for Jewish people starting from before the Holocaust and during the Holocaust. Daniel said a highlight of the trip for him was visiting the Warsaw Zoo, a scientific operation where the zookeepers saved many Jewish people by letting them hide there. The contributions of the zookeepers were the subject of the movie and book “The Zookeeper’s Wife.” The group also visited another place tied to a couple who helped Jewish people during World War II. The tourists went to the Ulma Family Museum of Poles Saving Jews in World War II in Markowa. The museum was named for Józef and Wiktoria Ulma, who gave shelter to eight Jewish people. The Nazis discovered they were hiding them and killed the Jewish people, as well as Józef and Wiktoria and their children. The Ulmas were posthumously given the “Righteous Among the Nations” title in 1995. The main goal of the museum is to show the heroism of Poles who helped the Jews during German occupation, risking their lives and their families’ lives. “We didn’t spend much time there but I think it was one place where I wish we had more time to spend because I think it’s a very important part of the story of the Holocaust,” Daniel said. “It was a very
interesting museum.” He said on the last day of tour, during the walk, he felt a “mixture of emotions.” “On the day of the march, everyone is in very good spirits but it’s almost a discomforting feeling to be happy in Auschwitz, a place of death. You have discomfort…at the same time, the march at least for me, personally it was a very uplifting feeling,” Daniel said. “You recognize when you’re there, the fact that all these people are here, it represents that the Nazis weren’t successful and ultimately failed at what they were attempting to do. It represents the fact that the Jewish people are still here; not only are they still here, they’re thriving.” Daniel said he met people from Los Angeles, as well as other parts of Europe and Japan during the walk on the tour’s last day. Poland’s President Andrzej Duda and Israel’s President Reuven “Ruvi” Rivlin also took part in the walk. Bill said he does not believe any of his relatives were victims of the Holocaust, though relatives on his father’s side had lived in Russia before immigrating to the United States. “When I was born, the world war was maybe two years old,” Bill said. “I heard a lot about it. It’s certainly something you wouldn’t want to go through. Treating people in a racist fashion is just not acceptable.” He and his wife, Cathy, who is Catholic, and their family moved to Arizona 14 years ago. Bill said he finds people friendly and accepting of different cultures in Chandler, too.
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SANTAN SUN NEWS | JUNE 16 – JULY 6, 2018
Daniel Stone
Left: Bill Stone of Chandler and his son, Daniel, visited the Okopowa Jewish Cemetery, to honor L. L. Zamenhof, a Polish Jew physician and oculist who created the international artificial language, Esperanto. Right: This is a look inside the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Poland. Bill Stone of Chandler and his son, Daniel visited this and many other sites of historical significance.
“We’re just one of the happy people transferred to Arizona,” he said. “Everybody seems to be on the same page — friendship and good relations.” Cathy is pleased her husband and son visited Poland for the Holocaust commemoration. “I thought it was a great thing for the two of them to do together as father and son,” she said. “I saw some research and half the millennials do not even know about the Holocaust.”
Cathy said she hopes to attend the march in the future but couldn’t this year because of work. While in Poland, Daniel and Bill had a chance to talk to Holocaust survivor Arie Shilansky, who had been in at least one concentration camp and sent on a death march. He was originally from Lithuania. “We were able to talk with Arie throughout the entire week and learn See
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