Editing Chaim Rumkowski (section)

=== ''Give Me Your Children'' ===
[[File:Rumkowski.JPG|thumb|260px|Chaim Rumkowski delivering a speech in the ghetto, 1941{{ndash}}42]]
On German orders Rumkowski delivered a speech on September 4, 1942, pleading with the Jews in the ghetto to give up children 10 years of age and younger, as well as the elderly over 65, so that others might survive. "Horrible, terrifying wailing among the assembled crowd" could be heard, reads the transcriber's note to his parlance often referred to as: "Give Me Your Children".<ref name="ushmm10007282">[http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007282 "Transcript for "Give Me Your Children""]. ''United States Holocaust Memorial Museum'', Washington, D.C., 6 January 2011. Retrieved: 1 October 2011.</ref> Some commentators see this speech as exemplifying aspects of the [[Holocaust]].<ref name="Schweber" />

{{blockquote|A grievous blow has struck the ghetto. They [the Germans] are asking us to give up the best we possess – the children and the elderly. I was unworthy of having a child of my own, so I gave the best years of my life to children. I've lived and breathed with children. I never imagined I would be forced to deliver this sacrifice to the altar with my own hands. In my old age, I must stretch out my hands and beg: Brothers and sisters! Hand them over to me! Fathers and mothers: Give me your children! | Chaim Rumkowski, September 4, 1942 <ref name="Schweber">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mco3ldVWNL8C&q=%22They+are+asking+us+to+give+up+the+best+we+possess%22 |title=Teaching the Holocaust |publisher=Torah Aura Productions |chapter=Ghettoization |date=2007 |access-date=24 March 2015 |author1=Simone Schweber |author2=Debbie Findling |page=107 |format=Google Books, preview |isbn=978-1-891662-91-1 }}</ref>}}