I just read this romantic story between Jerzy and Cyla, and i think this story has all the good things that good people are about, for they who still don't know the story is.. here's a little peak for you.
This story begins in years 1942, Jerzy Bielecki was a 21-year-old Catholic Pole in Auschwitz. Sent to work in a warehouse, he met Cyla Cybulska, a Jewish girl. "A pretty dark-haired one, winked at me," Bielecki recalled.
The two fell in love, and Bielecki began working on a daring plan for escape. He obtained a fake SS uniform and walked Cybulska out, telling officers the prisoner was needed for questioning.
The two made it out and walked to a farmhouse where Cybulska could hide from Nazis. They planned to marry, but fate prevented it. After the Soviets liberated Krakow (where Bielecki had hid), Bielecki began walking the 25 miles toward the farmhouse, but he was four days too late. Cybulska believed Jerzy had been killed and left. Both married other people, but amazingly found each other four decades later.
An amazing and beautiful story, you can read the full article in here.
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Bernardo Ríos, coordinador del Proyecto Lector del IES "Maimónides"於 2011年11月6日發表
Jerzy Bielecki (Slaboszow, Polonia, 1921), el hombre al que enterramos hoy en este obituario, fallecido el jueves a los 90 años mientras dormía en su casa en Nowy Targ, fue más afortunado, pues logró sacar de Auschwitz a su chica. En su historia confluyen Love story y La gran evasión, ... Dan ganas de llorar, más aún al recordar que tan hermosa historia hundía sus raíces en las amargas cenizas de Auschwitz. Las cosas no continuaron, sin embargo, como todos ...
Polish Holocaust 'story' might be possible fabrication, embellishment?
Read between the lines. There
are a lot of ''facts'' here that have not been ''checked''
When Dennis Hevesi, using the powerful authority of the New York Times
as his bullhorn, wrote a weepy obituary last October headlined
''[Catholic Polish man ] Jerzy Bielecki Dies at 90; Fell in Love [With
Jewish Girl] in a Nazi Camp," not every reader was convinced that the
backstory was true. Was it? Did Mr Bielecki tell a few tall tales in
the latter part of his life in order to get some
love and adulatiion from the world around him, including a book about
him, a documentary and many newspaper articles? Sadly, these things
happen in a post-Holocaust
world, where some victims of that tragic event, be they elderly
non-Jews (as in the case of Bielecki) or Jews, either mis-remember
what happened in those terrible faraway days or
they intentionally create fabrications that really amount to hoaxes and frauds.
The jury is still out on this one, but from all apparent information
available online, something is not entirely kosher about Bielecki's
backstory, that the New York Times swallowed
hook, line and sinker without apparent doing any deep fact-checking.
If you read the Times obit, as well as the Associated Press and
Reuters stories -- and the news was reported in the Washington Post
and Ha'aretz in Israel, among a thousand other publications worldwide
(not to mention the myriad blogs that picked up the sad, tragic, weepy
Holocaust story with a happy ending of sorts,including mentions of
things like a pear tree in Auschitz in 1944 where the couple spoke in
hushed tones and the 39 roses that Bielecki presented
to his former lover when they met in Poland 39 years after the war. If
you believe all this, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that's for sale, and
I will sell it to you, dirt cheap. Interested?
First the good news: In 1985, the Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem
awarded Bielecki the Righteous Among the Nations title for saving Cyla
Cybulska, a Jewish woman
at Auschwitz who later married another man and came to America and
died in 2005. Bielecki died this year.
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