<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477537" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Whose Life is Worth More?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Whose life is worth more? ' the SS officer asked.<br>Jacob Kogen did not answer. <br>In the eerie silence that ensued<br>the SS man drew his pistol.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tell me', he said, playing with the weapon, <br>'Whose life is worth more? <br>Yours? Your wife's? Your children's, <br>or the life of a stranger? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'All human lives are equal', Kogen replied.<br>'You mean the life of a Jew and a non-Jew<br>has the same value? ' the SS officer asked.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'God created all human beings<br>equally entitled to their lives', Kogen said. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'In that case you will provide me 7,000 Jews', <br>the SS man said. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was September 1,1942, <br>the third anniversary of the war's start, <br>the German attack on Poland<br>and Kogen was a member of the Jewish Council <br>in a Polish town.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He went home devastated. <br>He realized that The Nazis would take<br>the selected 7,000 people<br>outside the town in order to be shot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'One shall not shed innocent blood <br>to save his own life', he told his wife.<br>And he added: 'A Jew Cannot decide<br>who will be taken for execution'. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kogen and his family committed suicide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Hartal">Paul Hartal</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477537" data-title="Whose Life is Worth More? de Paul Hartal" data-description="'Whose life is worth more? ' the SS officer asked. Jacob Kogen did not answer. In the eerie silence that ensued the SS man drew his pistol. 'Tell me', he said, playing with the weapon, 'Whose life is worth more? Yours? Your wife's? Your childr..."></div> </div> </div>

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