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lthough it has been a few
years since the first speech
that Margot and Chaskel
Schlesinger gave about
their experiences during the
Holocaust, the pain has not
dulled.
Although they are half a world
and half a century away from the
time they were spared from death
by a man named Oskar
Schindler, the Schlesingers still
cry at the frightening memories
of people dying before them.
But they continue their tour of
schools across the nation, spread-
ing the message of what occurred
when they were young and what
must never happen again.
Last Friday was no different.
The Schlesingers, of Chicago, Oskar Schindler saved the
addressed a group of high-school Schlesingers.
students at Akiva Hebrew Day in a basement and almost getting
School where their grandson, caught by the Gestapo. As their
David Yolkut, is a sophomore. oppressors stood only a few feet
They told of the memories of the from a basement window, she
worst days of their lives begin- told her husband she wanted to
ning with Kristallnacht, the night end it.
"I wanted it to be over with, to
in November 1938 when hun-
be
shot, to die," she said. "But my
dreds of Jewish businesses,
homes and synagogues were de- husband said, No, you wait un-
til they take us.' "
stroyed.
There were other close calls.
Like the time when she and hun-
dreds of other women were herd-
ed into the showers at Auschwitz
certain they would be gassed.
"We were screaming and say-
ing goodbye to each other," she
said, crying. "And then the water
came on."
"-It is still so painful to remem-
"We woke up in the morning ber," she said.
After that episode, the now-fa-
and there were new regulations,
but just for Jews," recalled Mr. mous factory list of Oskar
Schlesinger, 84. "It was never the Schindler was formulated and
her name was added by Raimund
same after that."
Mr. Schlesinger survived de- Titsch, a German manager of
portations by paying off a lock- Julius Madritsch's war uniform
smith to get false business factory in which she worked.
registration papers. The papers Madritsch and Schindler were
listed him as having a trade con- planning to open a munitions fac-
sidered valuable to the Nazis. He tory in Czechoslovakia together
later obtained a similar pass for but Madritsch backed out, hand-
his wife which saved her from ing his workers over to Schindler.
"Oskar Schindler came before
death.
"The Gestapo came one day the women and told us, 'You are
and asked for our papers," said safe now. No one will shoot you
Mrs. Schlesinger, 76. "I showed unless I give the order and I will
them the (passport) and they not give that order," she said.
Now, 50 years after the Rus-
said, 'You can stay.' "
sians
liberated their factory, the
"We heard them walk through
the rest of our building. We heard Schlesingers have three daugh-
screams and shots. They were ters and eight grandchildren.
shooting people for not having the They are planning similar
speeches at Loyola University
right papers," she said.
There were times in the next and Amherst College as well as
several months when Mrs. public high schools.
"As long as they want us, we
Schlesinger, whose parents were
will
speak," Mrs. Schlesinger
killed in the beginning of the war,
said. "I believe it is our respon-
wanted to give up.
She remembered one time sibility to tell the world what we
praying with a group of friends have seen." ❑
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The Schlesingers
told of their
memories of the
Holocaust.