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LITERATURE
LA FETE (French) (French short story in three parts: Cochon grillé, Semaine Sainte, La fête.) SEMAINE SAINTE (French) (Partie centrale de "La Fête.) PASSION WEEK (English) (Central part of "LA FETE" in English.) CHIEN LOUP (French) H... (French) L'ART une farce (French) NOBLE SPORT (French) EXECUTIVE BATH POLISHERS (English) A DREAM (English) LIMERICKS (English) BACK TO LITERATURE,ESSAYS,POLITICS BACK TO SITE PLAN
PASSION WEEK
To Andrzej Wirth in souvenir of the first Passion Week of our acquaintance and friendship
=================================== SUNDAY
In 1942 300,000 persons were sent from the Ghetto to the gas chambers of Treblinka. On the 18 April 1943 it was decided to start the deportation of the remaining 55,000 on the morrow.
AND IT WAS THE PALM SUNDAY =================================== MONDAY
The Lord went up to Jerusalem to have His destiny fulfilled. The brush-makers went up to the roofs of the factory with a few pistols and some grenades to have their destiny fulfilled. In closed formations, stepping haughtily and loudly, the SS marched in and their dead littered the streets and not one escaped alive.
AND IT WAS THE HOLY MONDAY =================================== TUESDAY
All the churches were sounding with the imminent treason of Judas. At the brush-makers' gate the SS retired, leaving behind one hundred dead. Forced to abandon the idea of street fighting they sent emissaries promising to spare the lives of those fighters who would surrender. But the fighters knew what German promises were worth and answered: "We shall all be killed and it's just. But our honour will be victorious". Then the Germans murdered all the patients of the Czyste hospital. Avoiding the fighters they withdrew from the Ghetto and started to bomb it with artillery and from airplanes.
AND IT WAS THE HOLY TUESDAY =================================== WEDNESDAY
And in all the churches they continued to curse and to stigmatize Judas the anathema, who was about to betray the Lord for thirty pieces of silver. And in all the cathedrals the bishops celebrated solemn mass and consecrated Holy Oils. Due to the defeats suffered in street fighting the Germans introduced a new strategy: burn the entire Ghetto, house by house, with flamethrowers. People jumped to their death from houses in flames. Broken glass, littering every inch of the streets, was transformed into a sticky liquid catching the shoes and burning the feet. One could hardly breath in the smoke. And the guns and the planes shelled and bombed incessantly this furnace. And the column of black smoke rose to the sky and could be seen from a distance of fifty kilometers.
AND IT WAS THE HOLY WEDNESDAY =================================== THURSDAY
All the churches were sounding with the words of Peace and Hope: "God's Lamb sacrificed on the Cross will bring to the whole world the Salvation and Peace of God." And they evoked the consecration of priests, messengers of this Divine Truth, sent over the whole world to preach Peace and Love. And thousands were burned, asphyxiated, buried under the ruins or crushed on the ground after having jumped from windows set ablaze. And some of the firemen, brought there to keep flames from SS positions, directed jets of water on people burning alive. And they were shot there and then. And the black column of smoke started to spread over the sky in the shape of an enormous mushroom.
AND IT WAS THE HOLY THURSDAY =================================== FRIDAY
In the churches they spoke about Pilate who washed his hands saying: "I am innocent of this man's blood; it's your affair." And they stigmatized the Jews, who would have answered: "May His blood fall on us and on our children." And some priests were saying: "We witness the terrible punishment which they suffer for this crime. May it reinforce our faith in the Divine Justice and Love which sacrificed for us our Lord's life and which is saving us today. But others were saying: "Let us pray for those who suffer and help them when we can, imploring that our Lord diverts such suffering from us in spite of our sins." And some who spoke thus were arrested and put to death. And the furnace encompassed the entire Ghetto. And the black mushroom covered half of the horizon.
AND IT WAS THE HOLY FRIDAY =================================== SATURDAY
In the churches they spoke about the darkness which enveloped the earth when the Lord descended to hell. And all became a dark and gloomy furnace. And the black mushroom encompassed the entire horizon.
AND IT WAS THE HOLY SATURDAY =================================== SUNDAY
Jesus has risen from the dead! Halleluiah! He is alive! The day of joy has arrived! The Pope bestowed upon the world his great benediction "Urbi et Orbi". And fun fairs resonated with this joy all over the world. Some were so close to the wall that from the merry-go-rounds one could see people burning alive and jumping to their death. And the German report said: "The Jewish quarter of Warsaw has ceased to exist". And the black mushroom covered half the sky.
AND IT WAS EASTER SUNDAY ===================================