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Show Incredible Horror Turns CemrasnpHssss HOSPITALS being bombed, women being thrust into concentration con-centration camps for no othej crimes than nationality or race, children machine-gunned, all these are tales at which the average citizen would once have scoffed but is now forced to take as true. A civilization that once was proud but reversed its character so quickly that the majority of victims are still in a state of shock has allowed stories of incredible horror to be commonplace. I Such a story is that of Edward Kulikowski, former secretary of the : Polish Embassy in Washing ton, who was caught in the Polish Blitzkreifr. Mr. Kulikowski's story, which appears ap-pears in the June issue of Cosmopolitan, Cosmo-politan, is told so quietly that the reader finds himself absorbing the words without grasping the meaning. mean-ing. Later comes the full realization that the former Foreign Office man has recounted the memory of 4,000 people crowded inside a barbed wire enclosure in a pouring rain with no food to eat, no water to drink, not even space enough to sit down. Memories of the great Hospital of the Holy Spirit in Warsaw beins bombed although there was no possibility pos-sibility of mistaking the building for anything other than a hospital. More than three hundred doctors, nurses and patients died. Ninety men, women and children entombed in the cellar of a building which collapsed; col-lapsed; after many weeks the cellai was opened. Twenty of the ninety were horribly alive; the others mercifully dead. Poles and Jews wandering back and forth on the highways wavering waver-ing between two horrors, the Nazis and the Russians. Cooperative sharing shar-ing of beds. On cold nights a woman had a chance to sleep in a bed every fourth night, a man every seventh night. Alter describing such scenes Mr. Kulikowski finishes his story with these words: "Next morning we were in Italy. As we stopped at a station, I noticed B policeman on the platform. There was something wrong about him Bomething strange. Then I realized what it was. He was smiling. We were out of Germany. We were free." |