GEORGE ZIEL, by Lynn Munroe

Each one of us is born with a destiny. The time and place where we happen to be born can have a profound influence on how our destiny plays out. It was Jerzy Zielezinski’s destiny to be born in Poland on March 28, 1914, a combination of place and time that made him a young man of 25 when the Nazis invaded his homeland in 1939. The Nazis sent Jerzy to a place they called the Warsaw Ghetto, where they crammed one million people, anybody they didn’t like – Jews and Catholics and homosexuals and gypsies and others from the poor to the nobles – in what we now know was the beginning of a spirit-shattering, nightmarish chapter of history called the Holocaust.

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