These eleven men got together to commemorate the birth of Christ after many people had canceled their Hanukkahs and Christmases.

These eleven men got together to commemorate the birth of Christ after many people had canceled their Hanukkahs and Christmases.

➡️ Given that Radomsko had 30,000 residents and a Kreis (county) seat, the German Gendarmerie Zug (post) there was a significant one. In addition to policing the streets and enforcing administrative authority norms, the gendarmes also managed the Blue Police, monitored the collection of food quotas from farms, and supplied labor for other agencies.
➡️ Between 1939 and 1944, when the picture was taken, there were six Christmases interspersed with five years of robberies, raids, roundups, arrests, deportations, and shootings. Between searching for Jews who were hiding and putting Polish prisoners to death, the gendarmes took numerous pictures that documented the friendship among the men who carried out the horrific deeds but did not show any of the gory scenes.

➡️  One of the eleven German gendarmes assigned to the town of Radomsko, General Government, was most likely on duty on October 24, 1942, when a Blue Policeman brought a Jewish mother and a teenager to whom they had reported. After spending days hiding in a latrine with little to eat, they were worn out and resigned.

➡️ The ghetto, one of the earliest in occupied Poland, had been inhabited for over three years by 7,000 Radomsko Jews and 7,000 deportees from neighbouring cities and villages. Among them was Miriam Chaszczewacka, a teenager who kept a journal reflecting her realisation that her upbringing was in vain.

➡️ She was a dreamy and sensitive 15-year-old, whose everyday life was lined with apprehension of what was in store. The 29 April 1941 diary entry reads, "On Friday, I made everyone at home laugh by declaring: ‘I am 16, while He [Adolf Hitler] is over fifty, so I’m bound to outlive him.’” It was the circumstances that turned this otherwise perfectly logical conclusion into a joke. 

➡️ Miriam’s father was shot in the street during the first deportation to Treblinka in early October 1942, her younger brother Nachum murdered in the local cemetery around the same time, while the girl and her mother went into hiding. They lasted two weeks before they gave up and went looking for death. In the end, they must have met one of the gendarmes.

➡️ In the cemetery, Miriam Chaszczewacka received her release, and whichever gendarme made sure she didn’t outlive Hitler, two months later he sat down to celebrate the birth of Christ.

➡️ And he is probably in this picture.

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