Answers for Crighton School

Tom Holloway (xuegx@CSV.WARWICK.AC.UK)
Thu, 23 May 1996 15:53:12 +0100 

Hello - I'm Tom Holloway and I am the LONDON SCHOOLBOY in
the Memories Project.  I have put your questions to Feliks
Chustecki, the POLISH EXILE, and here are our answers, first
his (FC) and then mine (TH).

>My name is Gabrielle Merken.  I go to Crighton School......
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>1.If someone said the Holocaust was exaggerated or made up, what
>would you say?

  FC> No - if anything it was more horrific than often
  FC> described.

  TH> I would refer them to the many documents available.



>2.If you could explain your experience in WWII in one word, what
>would that word be?

  FC> You've got me there...  My experience really is that the
  FC> War dehumanised everyone caught up in it - not just
  FC> those that fought in it, but also civilians.  There is
  FC> no word that can say that.

  TH> No single word can sum up a World War.



>Hi. My name is Sean Adams and I go to the Crighton.....

>How do you feel about the recent Neo-Nazi and skinhead movements in
>the original Nazi countries and even in the US?

  FC> Those movements are dangerous.  What appeared to be a
  FC> reasonably innocent movement in Germany in the 1930s
  FC> (the German Workers Party, usually called the
  FC> 'Brown-shirts') grew to be extremely dangerous.

  TH> I would wonder what conditions produced such foolish
  TH> reactions and I would also wonder about the education
  TH> such people had received.


>Howdy!!!!!! My name is Randi Goldberg I am 12 years.....
>I was just wondering- What emotions did you experience at the
>liberation??

  FC> Liberation? My experience was a bit different. I was in
  FC> a Russian slave labour camp when the Russians announced
  FC> an amnesty for Polish citizens and told we would be
  FC> allowed to leave.  First we were told that we were
  FC> their slaves and our country was destroyed, and suddenly
  FC> we were fighting on the same side.  We cried, the young
  FC> and the old, we cried. Suddenly we were human again.

  TH> My country was not occupied.



>Hi my name is Christopher Sojka.  I'm from Crighton.....
>I would like to know how you  remember your
>experiences from World War 2  ???

  FC> I can't answer that.  We all had different experiences
  FC> at different times.

  TH> I'm sorry Christopher, I don't understand your question.
  TH> What is it that you want to know?


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