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Julian Bilecki Thesis Statement

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Julian Bilecki Spencer. Haugen English.1 per.7 Mr. Zietlow

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Julian Bilecki along with his cousin roman and the two of themes parents are heroes of the holocaust because they hid twenty three Jews in a homemade bunker in a cave inside the woods that were nearby their home.
Julian Bilecki along with his cousin and their fathers Genko and Lewko lived in a small house in Zawalow, Poland close to Podhajce ghetto. One day they heard a knock at their door when they opened the door they saw twenty three Jews that had escaped the liquidation of the podhajce ghetto and hid in the woods for two days. Once the Jews realized they could not escape the Nazis by them self’s, they sought …show more content…

Grau Schnitzer, 9 at the time, remembered how she left the ghetto with her parents to bury a wagon full of dead bodies but escaped instead. Her father and uncle, who knew the Bilecki family, Went to them for help. “We knew that they were believers and we knew that they were good people," she stated. "We had no choice, and we hoped that they would not report us. We said Here we are, help us and they helped us". This statement was taken from http://+-www.auschwitz.dk/bilecki.htm
Bülow, L. (n.d.). Julian Bilecki "all i did was help" Retrieved February 19, 2016, from .) http://www.auschwitz.dk/bilecki.htm
Bilecki Family - The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous. (n.d.). Retrieved March 08, 2016, from https://jfr.org/rescuer-stories/bilecki-family/

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