I don’t want to tell your story, but I have to. It is my duty as a father and as a human being to ensure that no child will ever get treated, they way you were. My heart breaks each time when I see a photograph of innocence—knowing the war destroyed that innocence.
What makes the story of Eva and Liane Münzer even more sad and poignant is that they were betrayed, not by their enemies but by the actions of their friends. The two girls were from Jewish Polish parents who lived in the Netherlands; in 1942, their father was arrested and sent to a German labour camp. Their mother recognized the dangers they would be facing and decided to place the two girls with catholic friends of the family.
Sometime in 1944, someone called the police to address a domestic violence case at the house of the rescuers of Eva and Liane. The husband and wife were fighting, and the husband denounced his wife and the two Jewish girls. The Münzer sisters were sent to Auschwitz and murdered. Eva was eight, and Liane was six.
They had a younger brother who survived the war, as did their mother; the father died a few months after liberation; at least, the only comfort he had was a free man.
It is just so heartbreaking to see that a mother who thought she did the best for her children had to find out that the decision she made turned out to be the wrong one. But she was not to know. As a parent, I would have done the same.
Every day, I am thankful that I have never been out in that position.
The people to blame for the death of Eva and Liane were the Nazis and those who helped them; I don’t even blame the foster or rescue mother, she put her life at risk, as did her husband, but he eventually put his own life above that of his wife and the two children he vowed to protect. He thought he was more valuable than the people around him. Nothing is more valuable than the life of a child.
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https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/photo/sisters-eva-and-liane-muenzer?parent=en%2F7711
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