Henio Zytomirski

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Henio Żytomirski on July 5, 1939

Henio Zytomirski ( Polish : Henio Żytomirski ) (born March 25, 1933 in Lublin , † November 9, 1942 in the Majdanek concentration camp ) was a Polish Jewish child who became a victim of the Holocaust .

Life

Henio Zytomirski was born on March 25, 1933 in Lublin, Poland and lived with his family on Szweska Street until after the war began . Shortly before his enrollment in 1939, the family of the was Nazis from ghetto to ghetto ultimately to the concentration camp Majdanek deported . On November 9, 1942, at the age of 9, he was killed in the gas chamber together with his father Szmuel Zytomirski .

Family documentation

In 2007 the Israeli artist Neta Żytomirska-Avidar , Henio's cousin, came to Lublin for an exhibition of her graphics. She brought a photo album with the family photos. Among them was a photo of Henio with his parents and hugging his father, one of his grandfather Froim , who died of typhus in the ghetto, and one that shows Henio at a birthday party. One photo shows Henio saying goodbye to his uncle Leon , Neta's father , who emigrated to Palestine in 1937 and thus survived the Holocaust. The last picture shows Henio at the age of six, shortly before starting school, which should have been celebrated on September 1, 1939. It was the day of the German invasion of Poland.

Web 2.0 project Facebook

Has become known henio zytomirski by him from the then 22-year-old historian Piotr Brozek 18 August 2009 on Facebook created profile. Brozek, who works at the Brama Grodzka cultural center in Lublin , wants to reach the younger generation with the Facebook profile. Because of the family photos brought by Henio's cousin Neta, the choice fell on Henio Zytomirski as the person for the project, as Neta had brought an album with family photos, including the last photo of Henio that was published on Facebook. There were also letters and other documents from which the boy's life could be reconstructed.

The Facebook profile, which was now available in Polish, Hebrew, English and German, triggered different reactions. While some historians consider it a trivial and questionable project, others have seen it as a useful, completely new form of education that would also reach younger target groups.

Adam Kopciowski , a historian at the Marie Curie Sklodowska University in Lublin , was interviewed by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz . He felt that the project blurred the lines between fact and fantasy too much. And:

"Someone presumptuously pretends to be a dead person, but we cannot be sure whether they spoke and thought and acted like that at the time"

- Adam Kopciowski

The head of the media department of the Jewish Museum Berlin , Mirjam Wenzel , was also critical of the fact that a Holocaust victim had no business on Facebook:

“I find putting an avatar on Facebook that informs me as my friend every day about what to think about and what happened 60 years ago, problematic because it mixes with Facebook in a way that usually does is used, namely as social networking with information between friends to whom little things are posted. "

- Mirjam Wenzel

On the other hand, Joy Sather-Wagstaff , a cultural anthropologist at the State University of North Dakota , could gain a lot from Brozek's project. So people who left messages and gifts on the page would treat the Facebook page like a memorial.

The anthropologist Mark Auslander from Brandeis University in Massachusetts is also positive . He thinks the project is educationally valuable. The Facebook page is one of the best examples of the contemporary way of communicating the Holocaust.

From the beginning, Piotr Brozek did not plan the project to be permanent; the maximum possible number of 5000 friends on Facebook had already been reached in summer 2010. Brozek has now deleted Henio's personal profile on Facebook, only a reduced Facebook page for Henio's friends still refers to the little boy's fate. He had already indicated this to 3sat in the spring of 2010: Piotr Brozek wanted to "one day let Henio disappear as quickly as he appeared on Facebook". With the disappearance of Facebook, he wants to make the loss of Henio tangible: "... actually this emptiness that will then arise is Henio's most important legacy."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d ORF.at : Debate about Web 2.0 project ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 16, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / orf.at
  2. ↑ Article in the English Wikipedia
  3. ↑ Zeit Online : Coming to terms with the past - A Jewish boy on Facebook  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , December 2009. Retrieved March 16, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.zeit.de  
  4. ↑ Linda Vierecke: Facebook - Nazi Victims in Web 2.0 . In: FR-online.de , November 25, 2009. Retrieved March 16, 2010.
  5. ↑ a b c Haaretz: Virtual memorials on Facebook commemorate Holocaust victims ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , February 4, 2010. Retrieved March 16, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.haaretz.com
  6. ^ A b 3sat online : Remembrance 2.0 A Holocaust victim on Facebook
personal data
SURNAME Zytomirski, Henio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Żytomirski, Henio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish concentration camp prisoner and Holocaust victim
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Lublin
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1942
Place of death Majdanek concentration camp