#Bestof@022: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Tree of Theresienstadt. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness (Originally posted October 22, 2022)

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1944 artwork from the theresienstadt ghetto
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#Bestof@022: "Indiana" Hoenlein and the Lost Tree of Theresienstadt. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness (Originally posted October 22, 2022)

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/holocaust-childrens-tree-descendant-to-be-planted-in-nyc-687647

"In 1943, a teacher bribed a guard to smuggle a sapling in, which the children planted to celebrate Tu Bi'shvat.

"Ultimately, only 200 of the 15,000 Jewish children imprisoned in Theresienstadt survived the Holocaust, and the survivors marked their liberation on the tree with a sign, reading “As the branches of this tree, so the branches of our people!”