Word: auschwitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of us who grew up during the Nazi occupation of Poland, names like Auschwitz and Dachau, though horrible enough, were very distant; to the children of the same generation in Poland, they were a close and terrifying reality...
...Last Stop" is a film, made in Poland with Auschwitz itself for a set, telling the story of the German prosecution of 4,500,000 Poles. Of course, the picture is grim-probably more grim than any other of the war narratives; but, in the endurance and faith of the group of Polish women portrayed, even the worst of horrors are obscured. You can't leave the theater without thinking that what might have been an ordinary documentary film has been converted into an exceptionally fine drama...
Wanda Jakubowska, the director, was a prisoner at Auschwitz during the reign of terror. She saw the queues of Jewesses waiting for the crematorium, the old women left to die in the mud, and the bones of the murdered babies. From her previous experience before the war with Film Polski, she acquired the talent for realistic sets and atmosphere. The synthesis, "The Last Stop," is her masterpiece...
...Auschwitz, he said, "We could tell by the color of the smoke whether those being burned had been starved to death or still had flesh on their bones. If they had starved, the smoke was black. If it was white, they still had flesh...
...Joseph Mindszenty became bishop of Veszprem. In his graceful rococo palace, Bishop Mindszenty hid many Jews who were being persecuted by the Nazis. Last week, a witness spoke up-but not in the Communists' Budapest courtroom. She was Mrs. Janos Peter, a Hungarian Jew who had escaped from Auschwitz concentration camp. She now lived in Vienna. "I was advised to flee to Veszprem," she related. "I put myself under the protection of Bishop Mindszenty. He received me warmly and hid me in the cellar of his palace. At least 25 people were there. Mindszenty brought food...