"While the Nazis laughed, they lived," says journalist Sue Smethurst, the couple's granddaughter-in-law.
In Warsaw, Kubush and other Jewish performers were hiding in plain sight, entertaining German soldiers with the circus.
Eventually they received some news of Mindla — a mysterious parcel arrived from Bialystok containing a red sock.
The sock was a symbol of hope for Kubush. Mindla had knitted red socks before the war.
Dressed as a railway conductor, he fled with other circus performers on a train out of Warsaw.
Within days he discovered that Mindla was a prisoner.
How can a prisoner knit a sock and send it to her circus performing husband, when she had no idea where he was, and he didn't even know she was a prisoner? Read on.
"It really is a series of lucky breaks, miracles, that they were actually even able to be reunited."
Oh no no no, not yet another one of the six million holocaust miracles?
The Google news feed never ceases to amaze me.
Article
#Symbolism #WWII #JQ
@TheConspiracyHole
In Warsaw, Kubush and other Jewish performers were hiding in plain sight, entertaining German soldiers with the circus.
Eventually they received some news of Mindla — a mysterious parcel arrived from Bialystok containing a red sock.
The sock was a symbol of hope for Kubush. Mindla had knitted red socks before the war.
Dressed as a railway conductor, he fled with other circus performers on a train out of Warsaw.
Within days he discovered that Mindla was a prisoner.
How can a prisoner knit a sock and send it to her circus performing husband, when she had no idea where he was, and he didn't even know she was a prisoner? Read on.
"It really is a series of lucky breaks, miracles, that they were actually even able to be reunited."
Oh no no no, not yet another one of the six million holocaust miracles?
The Google news feed never ceases to amaze me.
Article
#Symbolism #WWII #JQ
@TheConspiracyHole